Biography lends to death a new terror. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1947). The Happy…

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Biography lends to death a new terror. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1947). The Happy Prince, p.16, New Line Publishing
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Sa … ▶
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother s … ▶
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2000). The Plays of Oscar Wilde, p.266, Wordsworth Editions
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ✨ The Picture of D … ▶
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define i … ▶

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