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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Conformity

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.162, Oxford University Press on Demand

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.251, Simon and Schuster