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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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