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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~Oscar Wilde
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~Oscar Wilde
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I can resist anything but temptation
~Oscar Wilde
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
~Oscar Wilde
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
~Oscar Wilde
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
~Oscar Wilde
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
~Oscar Wilde
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
~Oscar Wilde
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
~Oscar Wilde
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
~Oscar Wilde
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I am not young enough to know everything.
~Oscar Wilde
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
~Oscar Wilde
from The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 -
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
~Oscar Wilde
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
~Oscar Wilde