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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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