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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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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 only one hides it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Oscar Wilde |
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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
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Oscar Wilde |
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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wilde
oscar
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Oscar Wilde |
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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humour
oscar-wilde
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Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others b..
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Oscar Wilde |
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
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Oscar Wilde |
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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man
woman
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Oscar Wilde |
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her 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 dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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Oscar Wilde |
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All art is quite useless.
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Oscar Wilde |
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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 virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People ..
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Oscar Wilde |
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I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart--hearts are made to be broken--but that it turns one's heart to stone.
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Oscar Wilde |
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
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passion
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Oscar Wilde |
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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disillusionment
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Oscar Wilde |
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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blame
guilt
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Oscar Wilde |
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Oscar Wilde |
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Oscar Wilde |
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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Oscar Wilde |
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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Oscar Wilde |
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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...
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Oscar Wilde |
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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances." --
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algy
calmness
heartlessness
oscar-wilde
heartless
muffins
calm
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Oscar Wilde |
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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight
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Oscar Wilde |
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....
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Oscar Wilde |
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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foodie
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Oscar Wilde |
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When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde |
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Oscar Wilde |
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
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inspirational
oscar-wilde
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Oscar Wilde |
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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marriage
life
love
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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
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Oscar Wilde |
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a..
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life
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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.
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Oscar Wilde |
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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
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Oscar Wilde |
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It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
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Oscar Wilde |
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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