Oscar Wilde Quotes About History
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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The secret of life is in art.
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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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