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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
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