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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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