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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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I am happy in my prison of passion
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
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