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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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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Prism! Where is that baby?
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
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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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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
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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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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
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