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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
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