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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
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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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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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Bad artists always admire each others work.
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