Oscar Wilde

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"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."	Money
"God and other artists are always a little obscure."	Art
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."	Art
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."	Age
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."	Wisdom
"Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are; by which we can see life as a whole: by which and which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations."	Love
"She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."	Success, Insults
"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."	Fear
"Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence."	Prayer
"Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief."	Religion
"Duty is what one expects from others."	Responsibility
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."	Women
"Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams."	Quotations
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."	Art
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."	Government, Fate
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."	Women
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."	Men
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."	Acting
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."	Advice
"I am not young enough to know everything."	Age
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