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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

• The reason we all like to think so well or others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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• The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith and the lesson of romance.

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• The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

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• The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is . . . Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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• The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

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• The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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• The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever marry, I'll try to forget the fact.

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• The vilest deeds like poison weeds / Bloom well in prison air: / It is only what is good in man / That wastes and withers there.

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• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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• The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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• There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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• There is always more brass than brain in an aristocracy.

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• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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• There is no sin except stupidity.

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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• There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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• There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.

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• There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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