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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.Oscar Wilde
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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupidOscar Wilde
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.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 man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.Oscar Wilde
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.Oscar Wilde
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.Oscar Wilde
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What fire does not destroy, it hardensOscar Wilde
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.Oscar Wilde
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.Oscar Wilde
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It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.Oscar Wilde
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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.Oscar Wilde
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Even things that are true can be proved.Oscar Wilde
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Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.Oscar Wilde
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Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.Oscar Wilde
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.Oscar Wilde
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.Oscar Wilde
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.Oscar Wilde
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.Oscar Wilde
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.Oscar Wilde