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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 (1854 - 1900)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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