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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Art should never be popular.
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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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