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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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