Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfect ...

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The cow ...

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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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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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesma

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Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.