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A mask tells us more than a face.

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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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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