Oscar Wilde Quotes
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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.
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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
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Veni vidi veni iterum! I came, I saw, I came again!
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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Every woman is wrong until she cries.
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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.