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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He also wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
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