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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright.
* He was born in Dublin in 1854 and died in Paris in 1900.
* He is best known for his epigrams and plays, such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
* He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement, which advocated art for art's sake.
* He was imprisoned for two years for homosexual offenses in 1895.
* After his release, he lived in exile in France.
* He died of meningitis in 1900.
* He is considered one of the most important figures in English literature.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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