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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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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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