Oscar Wilde
Irish · 1854–1900
Irish poet, playwright, and novelist celebrated for his biting wit, flamboyant style, and the enduring novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Wikipedia ↗“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
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“To define is to limit.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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“I can resist everything except temptation.”
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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, / By each let this be heard, / Some do it with a bitter look, / Some with a flattering word.”
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“I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. I had realised this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and had forced my age to realise it afterwards.”
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