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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
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