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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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