Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
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But what world says that I'm wicked? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.