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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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Art should never be popular.
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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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