Oscar Wilde Quotes on Identity
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Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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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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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?