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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, 3 Tage oder 61.912 Tage alt.

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

• Only the shallow know themselves.

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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• Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is one's self.

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• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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• Philanthropy (has become) simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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• Philosophy may teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbors.

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and with his environment.

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• Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

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• Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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• Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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• Religion is a fashionable substitute for belief.

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• Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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• Self-denial is simply a method by which man arrests his progress.

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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• Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

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• Society oft en forgives the criminal, it never forgives the dreamer.

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• Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope.

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• Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

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