Oscar Wilde

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"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."	Music
"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."	Quotations
"Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious."	Patriotism
"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise."	Poetry
"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
"Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys."	Economics, Soccer
"It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth."	God, Truth
"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."	Miscellaneous
"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
"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."	Anti-God, Attitude
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."	Experience
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."	Friendship, Destiny
"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
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."	Success, Imagination
"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
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