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I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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regret
pleasure
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Oscar Wilde |
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.
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humorous
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Oscar Wilde |
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31c8bd6
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way,
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oscar-wilde
soul
eyes
hell
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Oscar Wilde |
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No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with itshideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.Now, wherever you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so? . . . You have a wonderfully beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don't frown. You have. And beauty is a form of genius-- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it ..
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Oscar Wilde |
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
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Oscar Wilde |
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You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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Oscar Wilde |
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6a7c7f7
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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humanity
life
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Oscar Wilde |
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f2311a4
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LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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marriage
relationships
humor
engagement
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Oscar Wilde |
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098c10e
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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
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women
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Oscar Wilde |
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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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philosophy
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Oscar Wilde |
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433094e
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
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trust
love
secrets
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Oscar Wilde |
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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personal-value
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Oscar Wilde |
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891023d
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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renewal
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Oscar Wilde |
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49a069d
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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginn..
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Oscar Wilde |
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9312f6d
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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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Oscar Wilde |
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59d9431
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
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Oscar Wilde |
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0d3a1b5
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
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Oscar Wilde |
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31a5e5a
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Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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oscar-wilde
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Oscar Wilde |
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c24d7ac
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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.
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Oscar Wilde |
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0eeda57
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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Oscar Wilde |
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e64b8ee
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
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Oscar Wilde |
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4bcea54
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Time is a waste of money.
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time
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Oscar Wilde |
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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Oscar Wilde |
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e9bb73c
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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Oscar Wilde |
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7fb7754
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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
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Oscar Wilde |
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83e9b0e
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Life is not governed by will or intention. 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 sublte memories with it, a line from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you Dorian, ..
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Oscar Wilde |
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aa01859
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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Oscar Wilde |
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c588f78
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I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said...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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2b3b19a
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Oscar Wilde |
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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uselessness
utility
art
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Oscar Wilde |
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4dfe0c1
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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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good
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Oscar Wilde |
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23d6d1f
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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
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Oscar Wilde |
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ae55491
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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
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Oscar Wilde |
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07247e7
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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Oscar Wilde |
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62f9916
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Oscar Wilde |
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And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Oscar Wilde |
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4282b4c
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
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temptation
self-control
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Oscar Wilde |
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89ba987
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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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Oscar Wilde |
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21c945a
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
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Oscar Wilde |
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45033e1
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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Oscar Wilde |