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Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet, considered to be one of the best writers of the late Victorian era. He is known for his epigrams, his plays and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's widely accepted that he published his first work at age sixteen in 1856, a collection of poems titled Poems. During this time, he wrote a series of love letters concerning Lord Alfred Douglas and Fanny D'arles which he later destroyed.
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."
Oscar Wilde"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
Oscar Wilde
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Wilde
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Oscar Wilde"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
Oscar Wilde
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
Oscar Wilde
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
Oscar Wilde"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
Oscar Wilde
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
Oscar Wilde"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
Oscar Wilde"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties."
Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about."
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
Oscar Wilde"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
Oscar Wilde"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
Oscar Wilde
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
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