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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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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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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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