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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
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