We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only nece… - Oscar Wilde

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. .

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde

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