Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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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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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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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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Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
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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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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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Nature is always behind the age.