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Oscar Wilde just casually writing the hardest lines in this book will always have a special place in my heart

“[…] nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

“To become a work of art is the object of living.”

“Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.”

“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and try to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is really a true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”