Quote by Oscar Wilde
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And thats political, in its most profound way. – June Jordan

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. – Nikolai Berdyaev

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