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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
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