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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 am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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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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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl
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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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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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