Oscar Wilde

Writer

Oscar Wilde was a renowned Irish playwright and poet, celebrated for his sharp wit and critiques of Victorian society, particularly in works like 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'

Born
October 16, 1854
Died
November 30, 1900
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"One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them."

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"I don't want to earn a living. I want to live."

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"What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?"

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"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."

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"A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining."

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"A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it."

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"With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized"

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"Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

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"Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good."

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"I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure"

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"If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream."

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"The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never."

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"I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering."

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"If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things."

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