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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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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it it is what we become through it.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married by then it was too late'
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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
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