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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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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.
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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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Yes poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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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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