And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde in The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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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.
quote by 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.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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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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Infanta: His dancing was funny; but his acting is funnier still. Indeed he is almost as good as the puppets, only of course not quite so natural.
classic line from House of Pomegranates (The Birthday of the Infanta), script by Oscar Wilde (1892)
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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