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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.
– Oscar Wilde

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  12. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
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  15. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
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  25. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
  26. Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
  27. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
  28. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
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  30. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde
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  32. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. – Oscar Wilde
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  37. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde
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