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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 wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.
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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
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