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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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History is merely gossip
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One should always be in love.
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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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 sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
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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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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
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