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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.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Books

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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Life Lessons

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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Life

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Life

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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.

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