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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Category: Action Author: Oscar Wilde
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Category: Adversity Author: Oscar Wilde
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Category: Adversity Author: Oscar Wilde
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I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.
Category: Advice Author: Oscar Wilde
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Category: Age Author: Oscar Wilde
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Category: Age Author: Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Category: America Author: Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Category: Art Author: Oscar Wilde
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Category: Art Author: Oscar Wilde
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
Category: Art Author: Oscar Wilde
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Category: Art Author: Oscar Wilde
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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.
Category: Art Author: Oscar Wilde
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Category: Attitude Author: Oscar Wilde
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Category: Attitude Author: Oscar Wilde
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Oscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Oscar Wilde
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Oscar Wilde
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Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
Category: Boldness Author: Oscar Wilde
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Oscar Wilde
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Oscar Wilde
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