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Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

(1854–1900) · Irish Playwright

Irish poet and playwright

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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