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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world there are far more things forbidden to them.
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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
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