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Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker, gilt als führender Vertreter des "l‘art pour art - Kunst um der Kunst willen", "Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray", "Ein idealer Gatte", "Das Gespenst von Canterville", "Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung" (Irland, 1854 - 1900).

Oscar Wilde · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Oscar Wilde wäre heute 169 Jahre, 6 Monate, 8 Tage oder 61.917 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.10.1854 in Dublin
Gestorben am 30.11.1900 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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• It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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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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• It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.

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• Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

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• Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

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• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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• Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs Allonby It ends with Revelations.

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• Lying, a telling of beautiful untrue things, this is the proper aim of art.

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• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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• Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

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• Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - Women like to be a man's last romance.

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

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• Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning; he used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

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• Meredith's a prose Browning, and so is Browning.

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• Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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