Oscar Wilde Quotes
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.