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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?
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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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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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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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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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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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