"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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Selected Quotes of Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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"I can resist anything except temptation.
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"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
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"My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip.
What is the difference between scandal and gossip?
Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. "
What is the difference between scandal and gossip?
Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. "
"I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
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"I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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"A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes
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