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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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Divorces are made in heaven.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?
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