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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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life
truth
spiritual-development
soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I never change, except in my affections.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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people
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Oscar Wilde |
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play...
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Oscar Wilde |
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
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satisfaction
women
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Oscar Wilde |
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
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Oscar Wilde |
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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Oscar Wilde |
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
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the-picture-of-doran-gray
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Oscar Wilde |
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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Oscar Wilde |
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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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humor
truth
oscar-wilde
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Oscar Wilde |
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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Oscar Wilde |
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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secrets
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Oscar Wilde |
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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid
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love
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Oscar Wilde |
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But we never get back our youth... The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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macabre
dark
inspirational
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Oscar Wilde |
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Oscar Wilde |
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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shakespeare
satire
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Oscar Wilde |
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Each man kills the thing he loves.
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Oscar Wilde |
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
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soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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death
friendship
brothers
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Oscar Wilde |
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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individualism
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Oscar Wilde |
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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Oscar Wilde |
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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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genius
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Oscar Wilde |
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
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Oscar Wilde |
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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Oscar Wilde |
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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words
tragedy
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Oscar Wilde |
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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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self
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Oscar Wilde |
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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regret
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Oscar Wilde |
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
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ignorance
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Oscar Wilde |
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
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Oscar Wilde |