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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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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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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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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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