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The secret of life is in art.

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 good we get from art is not what we learn from it it is what we become through it.
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It is so easy to convince others it is so difficult to convince oneself.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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