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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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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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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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