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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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To live in this world is a rare thing most people just exist.
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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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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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
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