To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
The two weak points in our age are its want of principle and its want of profile.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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You should study the Peerage. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Everything must come to one out of one's own nature.
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all.
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