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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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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
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