Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde : 

Oscar Wilde

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Birth date: October 16, 1854Birth place: Dublin, IrelandDeath date: November 30, 1900Death place: Paris, FranceBurial: La Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France

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Wilde's tomb, sculpted by Sir Jacob Epstein, in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris

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Known for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius. Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

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As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts.

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Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde

His Works : 

His Works Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray，1891年 《道林·格雷的畫像》 Fairy Tale The Happy Prince and Other Tales，1888年 《快樂王子和其他故事》 A House of Pomegranates，1891年 《石榴屋》

《薇拉》（Vera，1880年） 《溫德密爾夫人的扇子》（Lady Windermere`s Fan，1892年。又譯《溫夫人的扇子》、《少奶奶的扇子》） PlaysThe Duchess of Padua，1893年 《帕都瓦公爵夫人》 Salomé，1893年 《莎樂美》 （原著用法語寫成） A Woman of No Importance,1892年 《無足輕重的女人》 （1893年Theatre Royal Haymarket首演） : 

《薇拉》（Vera，1880年） 《溫德密爾夫人的扇子》（Lady Windermere`s Fan，1892年。又譯《溫夫人的扇子》、《少奶奶的扇子》） PlaysThe Duchess of Padua，1893年 《帕都瓦公爵夫人》 Salomé，1893年 《莎樂美》 （原著用法語寫成） A Woman of No Importance,1892年 《無足輕重的女人》 （1893年Theatre Royal Haymarket首演）

Poetry : 

Poetry Poems，1881年 《詩集》 Sphinx，1894年 《斯芬克斯》 The Ballad of Reading Gaol，1898年 《瑞丁監獄之歌》

The Happy Prince and Other Tales : 

The Happy Prince and Other Tales The stories included in this collection are: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Selfish Giant The Devoted Friend The Remarkable Rocket

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"Men become old, but they never become good."-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."-- Letter from Paris, dated May 1900"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."-- “Vera, of The Nihilists”"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."-- “A Woman of No Importance”

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"When I was alive and had a human heart," answered the statue, "I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow is not allowed to enter. In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall. Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful. My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived, and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep."

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"Death is a great price to pay for a red rose," cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?"

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Then she gave one last burst of music. The White Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened it petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams. It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea.