Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

—John Henry Newman

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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

—J. M. Barrie

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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