Oscar Wilde Quotes
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
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My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
[Art]
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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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.
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Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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One is tempted to define man as 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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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
[Acceptance]
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