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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 170 Jahre, 0 Monate, 0 Tage oder 62.092 Tage alt.

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

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

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• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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• The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox-the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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• The Governor was strong upon The Regulations Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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

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• The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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• The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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• The more we study art, the less we care for nature.

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• The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass.

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• The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

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• The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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• The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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• The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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• The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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• The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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• The proper school to learn art is not life but art.

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• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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