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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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Birth: 1854-10-16 , Dublin
Death: 1900-11-30 , Paris
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright, celebrated for his wit, flamboyant style, and epigrammatic brilliance. He became one of the most famous figures of the late Victorian era, known for his advocacy of aestheticism, the belief that art exists for beauty's sake. Despite his literary success, his personal life was marked by scandal and legal troubles, leading to imprisonment.
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we area nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

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