Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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The people who have adored me — there have not been very many, but there have been some — have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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The sky was pure opal now.