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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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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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In fact, I am never wrong.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
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I have a simple taste, only the best.
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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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