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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” 

― Oscar Wilde [1854-1900],  The Picture of Dorian Grey

on tragedy

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde

Pol Roger

His good friend, Lord Birkenhead, once said of him, “Winston is a man of simple tastes, he is always prepared to put up with the best of everything.”

- Source here.

Victorian Dandy

"Just as every Sinner has a future, every Saint has a past."
- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
- Oscar Wilde

"One's real life is often the life one doesn't lead."
- Oscar Wilde

L'Hôtel

Oscar Wilde died in Paris at the age of 46 of meningitis here, in a duel to the death with hotel room #16's wallpaper on November 30, 1900.


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An earlier reference to Wilde here.

The Importance of Being Idle

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world."
- Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]

The experts on idleness.

An earlier reference to Wilde here.

Absinthe

Absinthe influenced artists Degas, Manet, van Gogh and Picasso, and writers Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde and Hemingway, among others.

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
- Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]