"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person." 

Oscar Wilde

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"To live is the rarest thing in the world; most people merely exist, that is all." 

Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important to be taken seriously." 

Oscar Wilde

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"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power." 

Oscar Wilde

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"They’ve promised us that dreams can come true, but forgot that nightmares are also dreams too." 

Oscar Wilde

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"The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic." 

Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." 

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." 

Oscar Wilde

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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." 

Oscar Wilde

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"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." 

Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." 

Oscar Wilde

"You have spoiled the romance of my life. How little you can know of love, if you say it mars your art! Without your art, you are nothing. I would have made you famous, splendid, magnificent. The world would have worshipped you, and you would have borne my name. What are you now? A third-rate actress with a pretty face." 

Dorian Gray, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

- Oscar Wilde

The entire movie lacked so completely and utterly, but just look at how pretty he is!