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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world there are far more things forbidden to them.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.
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I have a simple taste, only the best.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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America is one long expectoration.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.
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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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It is so easy to convince others it is so difficult to convince oneself.
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