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Complex Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde, the wit whose epigrams still sting, tackled the tangled nature of complexity with razor‑sharp humor. His lines expose the absurdity of over‑analysis, the paradox of simplicity within intricate systems, and the human tendency to overcomplicate even the plainest truths.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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The truth is rarely pure and is never simple.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

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“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

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“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

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