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"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
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Oscar Wilde, ”The Picture of Dorian Gray” [1891]
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Only the shallow know themselves.
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
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Wildean Swallow, a meme wilde about Wilde.
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"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives."
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Oscar Wilde (via portlandings)
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"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
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Oscar Wilde (via letterstoinspire)
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
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Oscar Wilde (via quoteforyourgoat)
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."
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Oscar Wilde (via bitches0nbroomsticks)
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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."
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Oscar Wilde, ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ (via letterstoinspire)
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"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
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Oscar Wilde (via double-pinky-promise)
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"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via brightbluedoor)
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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."
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Oscar Wilde (via swimming-under-water)
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"The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
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Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (via itsfromabook)
