If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what… - Oscar Wilde

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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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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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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