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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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