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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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