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An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.


Oscar Wilde

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OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t...
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