Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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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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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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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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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Nature is always behind the age.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
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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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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.