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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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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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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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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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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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