Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Life is a great disappointment.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.