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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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