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Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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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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Everything popular is wrong.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
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