One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a...

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a...

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over...

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over...

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it....

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it....

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...