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Author: Oscar Wilde
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  1. Oscar Wilde _ The English Renaissance of Art

    The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and defined the boundary line, the more perfect is the work of art; and the less keen and sharp the greater is the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism and bungling. 'Great inventors in all ages knew this - Michael Angelo and Albert Durer are known by this and by this alone'; and another time he wrote, with all the simple directness of nineteenth-century prose, 'to generalise is to be an idiot.
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  2. Oscar Wilde _ The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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  3. Oscar Wilde _ Lady Windermere's Fan

    I can resist anything except temptation.
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  4. Oscar Wilde _ The Picture of Dorian Gray

    I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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  5. Oscar Wilde _ The Picture of Dorian Gray

    To define is to limit.
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  6. Oscar Wilde _ De Profundis

    With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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  7. Oscar Wilde _ The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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  8. Oscar Wilde _ The Importance of Being

    The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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  9. Oscar Wilde _ The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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  10. Oscar Wilde _ De Profundis

    Hearts are made to be broken."
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  11. Oscar Wilde _ The Importance of Being

    Do you smoke? Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
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