Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves...

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Nature is always behind the age

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music,...

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts...

#Passion

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

#Passion

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love...

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of...

#Cynicism

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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