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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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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Most people are boring and stupid.
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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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