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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it. (Oscar Wilde)
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. View quote
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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. View quote
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. View quote
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. View quote
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. View quote
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I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. View quote
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. View quote
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. View quote
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love. View quote
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You are Beautiful when you are happy. (Oscar Wilde)
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. View quote
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I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir. View quote
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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 consciosness, to wake their ashes in pain. View quote
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs. View quote
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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. View quote
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us. View quote
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. View quote
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. View quote
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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself. View quote
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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life... I have put only my talent into my works. (Oscar Wilde)
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. View quote
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. View quote
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer. View quote
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer. View quote
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Oscar Wilde

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Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: October 16, 1854
Died: November 30, 1900
Quotes count: 1196
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