Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.