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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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