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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.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

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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