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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde -
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
Oscar Wilde -
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Oscar Wilde -
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde -
Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
Oscar Wilde
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
Oscar Wilde -
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde -
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde -
The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Oscar Wilde -
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
Oscar Wilde -
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde -
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde -
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
Oscar Wilde -
All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Oscar Wilde -
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Oscar Wilde -
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde -
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde -
My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
Oscar Wilde -
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde