Quotes from Oscar Wilde
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. In
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ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.
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I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.
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The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women
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I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.
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Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?
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People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
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are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.
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But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy
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One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.
- Oscar Wilde