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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
— Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tags: writing, reading, morality, books

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: about, than, being, only, life
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: life, goals, artistic
Everything popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: everything, wrong
There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: relationships, love, romance
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: misattributed-oscar-wilde, inspirational, honesty, be-yourself, attributed-no-source
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