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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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