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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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 tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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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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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.
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