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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis Quotes

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

“They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.”