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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I walk the world in wonder.
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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We Irish will never achieve anything but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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