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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
Oscar Wilde
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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde -
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
Oscar Wilde -
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.
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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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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
Oscar Wilde
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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm too old to know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde
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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
Oscar Wilde
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Oscar Wilde