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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

~Oscar Wilde

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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