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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
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Yes poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married by then it was too late'
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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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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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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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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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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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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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
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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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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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