Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Only love can keep anyone alive...
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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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Talent borrows, genius steals!
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.