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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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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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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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