Oscar Wilde Quotes
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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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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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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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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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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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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Always keep love in your heart.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle.