The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde

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

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About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

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Pen Names: С.3.3. • Sebastian Melmoth
Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Alternative Names: Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
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I wish I could love,” cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. “But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.
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What of Art?
-It is a malady. — Love?
-An Illusion. — Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief. — You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. — What are you?
-To define is to limit.
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