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

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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To define is to limit.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
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All art is quite useless.
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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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