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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Ones real life is so often the life that one does not lead. - Osca

Ones real life is so often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. – Oscar Wilde

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Marriage
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Oscar Wilde
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

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Travel
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Oscar Wilde
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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Portraits
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Oscar Wilde
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Other Quotes from
Life
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It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. – Sherwood Anderson

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Life

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. – Henry David Thoreau

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Life

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. – Laurence Sterne

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Life
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand…. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Life

Random Quotes

Instead of getting married again, Im going to find a woman I dont like and give her a house. – Lewis Grizzard

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Marriage

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it…. Prevention is better than cure. – Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, 1817

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Alcohol

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard

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Modern, Modernism

Everything thats bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because thats the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. – Gil Scott-Heron

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positive