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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

~Oscar Wilde

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

~Oscar Wilde

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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