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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married by then it was too late'
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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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