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“He was dreadfully punished by men utterly his inferiors: ruined, outlawed, persecuted till Death itself came as a deliverance. His sentence impeaches his judges.”
― Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Vol 1

“Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I can sympathize with everything except suffering," said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores, the better.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray