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Noch immer bleibt auf dem Gebiet der Seelenforschung viel zu tun. Wir haben nur die Öberfläche der Seele berührt, nichts weiter. In einer einzigen Gehirnzelle sind schönere und schrecklichere Dinge bewahrt, als selbst jene sich erträumen ließen.
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Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker, gilt als führender Vertreter des "lart 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, 11 Monate, 5 Tage oder 62.067 Tage alt.
Geboren am 16.10.1854 in Dublin
Gestorben am 30.11.1900 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Cecil Graham: "What is a cynic?" - Lord Darlington: "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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Cecily: When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade.
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Chaos, illumined by flashes of lightning.
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Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Conversation should touch everything but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Do you want to know the great drama of my life? It's that I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent.
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Duty is what one expects from others.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intelect - simply a confession of failure.