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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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All art is quite useless.
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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. It seems to me that we never do anything else, murmered Dorian.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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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.
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