Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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Always keep love in your heart.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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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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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.