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806fb06
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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
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Oscar Wilde |
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061ae3c
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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
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Oscar Wilde |
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e63602c
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
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gothic-horror-fiction
hedonism
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Oscar Wilde |
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c085aaa
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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Oscar Wilde |
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b6dbab0
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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money
old
imagine
know
young
sarcasm
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Oscar Wilde |
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1066ac9
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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Oscar Wilde |
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4f221ae
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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Oscar Wilde |
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9dc944f
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
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procrastination
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Oscar Wilde |
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3132148
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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
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Oscar Wilde |
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59c387e
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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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philosophy
inspirational
knowledge
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Oscar Wilde |
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fd74451
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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Oscar Wilde |
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93e899c
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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
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Oscar Wilde |
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d881c00
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel:
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Oscar Wilde |
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6ee9ad7
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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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reality
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Oscar Wilde |
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a662cb8
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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Oscar Wilde |
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e195460
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To be really mediaeval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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humor
wilde
clothing
greeks
soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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1630d77
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Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.
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Oscar Wilde |
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3989197
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I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
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Oscar Wilde |
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5aa9f63
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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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humor
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Oscar Wilde |
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57e7a2d
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Most people are boring and stupid.
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people
stupid
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Oscar Wilde |
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34044ff
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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Oscar Wilde |
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6f78e15
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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Oscar Wilde |
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d2d458e
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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
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Oscar Wilde |
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596b6d9
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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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Oscar Wilde |
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52dbcad
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Oscar Wilde |
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b2aab86
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And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I:
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Oscar Wilde |
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9be0866
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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personality
wisdom
vanity
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Oscar Wilde |
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8ba7dff
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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Oscar Wilde |
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25f1d00
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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
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sorrow
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Oscar Wilde |
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46ee28a
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If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Oscar Wilde |
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e814a82
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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. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a ..
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Oscar Wilde |
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412ad4d
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The moon in her chariot of pearl
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Oscar Wilde |
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b26057a
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in ..
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violence
personality
freedom
soul-of-a-man
wilde
oscar
prison
soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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2085770
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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discovery
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Oscar Wilde |
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33af56e
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Oscar Wilde |
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d66d380
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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
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Oscar Wilde |
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8c68c0b
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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Oscar Wilde |
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b8f0429
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
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Oscar Wilde |
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bd1029b
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Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like fr..
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Oscar Wilde |
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4d407b3
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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.
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people
san-francisco
tales-of-the-city
places
hiding
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Oscar Wilde |
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8cc586c
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
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Oscar Wilde |
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8c07ed2
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But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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youth
charm
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Oscar Wilde |
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fbd33e0
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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Oscar Wilde |
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dac8c6b
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
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insult
humor
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Oscar Wilde |