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Oscar Wilde
1854-1900 (Age at death: 46 approx.)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early, becoming fluent in French and German. At university Wilde read Greats, and proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. However, he became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism (led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin) though he also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism (and later converted on his deathbed). After university Wilde moved to London, into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities; he published a book of poems, lectured America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the major personalities of his day.
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Anyone who tells the truth is bound to be found out sooner or later |
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. |
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Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you intensify its ecstasy. |
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cavemen had known how to laugh, History would have been different. |
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. |
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself, can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. |
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The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in whyich it has been able to bear them. |
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