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Oscar Wilde
I know not...
I know not whether Laws be right
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who live in gaol
Is that the wall...
Disobedience, in the...
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that...
To make men...
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
One's real life...
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Source: Rose-Leaf and...
There is always...
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to...
A map of...
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at...
Pleasure is the...
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Source: 'An...
Like two doomed...
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no...
And the wild...
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than...
As for the...
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire...
Man is made...
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Source: The Soul of Man...
One should never...
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one...
Every great man...
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the...
We have really...
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
In America, the...
In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
People sometimes inquire...
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there...
Relations are simply...
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest...
Mr. Whistler always...
Mr. Whistler always spelt art, and we believe still spells it, with a capital I.
The truth is...
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature...
Selfishness is not...
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness...