Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is what we fear that happens to us.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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