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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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