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Modern Life Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
- To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest…
- the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
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