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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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In fact, I am never wrong.
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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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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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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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