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Oscar Wilde

Known for his biting wit and love of dressing flamboyantly, Oscar Wilde was a noted playwright in his time, penning a series of social satires, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband and A Woman of No Importance. Imprisoned because of his sexual advances toward the Marquis of Queensbury, he wrote De Profundis, which was a thinly veiled address to his accuser. The trial and prison term ruined him. He spent much of the rest of his life living in cheap hotels or staying with friends throughout Europe and died penniless in 1900. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him renewed fame long after his death.

Date of Birth: October 16, 1854

Date of Death: November 30, 1900

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"The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion."

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As quoted in The Riddle of Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Text of the Sonnets (1962) pg. 186

Written in a story by Wilde titled, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." in 1889. The text contains quite a bit of reference and quotation to Shakespeare's sonnets.

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Consciousness Events Love Passion

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"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."

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Age And Aging Life Pearls of Wisdom

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go"

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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance."

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A Woman of No Importance Act 2, (1893)

Spoken by the character Mrs. Allonby. The precursor to this line is "When Ernest and I were engaged, he swore to me positively on his knees that he had never loved any one before in the whole course of his life. I was very young at the time, so I didn't believe him, I needn't tell you. Unfortunately, however, I made no enquiries of any kind till after I had been actually married four or five months. I found out then that what he had told me was perfectly true. And that sort of thing makes a man so absolutely uninteresting."

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inspirational Irish Dramatist Love Quote of the Day

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"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

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No contextual information is available for this quote, beyond the fact that it is widely attributed to Wilde, who was a poet and dramatist.

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Famous Humorous Imagination Top 100

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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

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"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."

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Ambition inspirational Quote of the Day

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"The final mystery is oneself."

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Mystery

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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true."

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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

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Cute Friends Or Friendship Irish Dramatist Quote of the Day

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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

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"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

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