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Oscar Wilde

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


— Oscar Wilde


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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.


— Oscar Wilde


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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.


— Oscar Wilde


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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.


— Oscar Wilde


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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.


— Oscar Wilde


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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.


— Oscar Wilde


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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.


— Oscar Wilde


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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.


— Oscar Wilde


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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.


— Oscar Wilde


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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.


— Oscar Wilde


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About Oscar Wilde

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Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

One evening after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. " which Wilde had begun in 1887 was first publiOscar Wilded in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public.

At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. As a spokesman for aestheticism he tried his hand at various literary activities: he publiOscar Wilded a book of poems lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.

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