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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand. (Oscar Wilde)
To be in love is to surpass one's self. View quote
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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. View quote
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. View quote
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. View quote
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. View quote
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. View quote
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. View quote
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Oscar Wilde)
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? View quote
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. View quote
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. View quote
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
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Everything popular is wrong. View quote
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. View quote
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. View quote
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Who, being loved, is poor? View quote
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. View quote
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde)
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. View quote
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. View quote
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. View quote
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. 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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