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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
Oscar Wilde
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
Oscar Wilde
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
Oscar Wilde
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
Oscar Wilde
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
Oscar Wilde
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True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
Oscar Wilde
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To be premature is to be perfect.
Oscar Wilde
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde
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Love is easily killed.
Oscar Wilde
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
Oscar Wilde
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
Oscar Wilde
