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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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