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Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Essayist
Journalist
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Dublin city
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart
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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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