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The Soul of Man under Socialism quotes

5 quotes from The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
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.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)

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