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Poet, writer and journalist, born monday october 16, 1854 in Dublin (Ireland), died friday november 30, 1900 in Paris (France)
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In its complexity, the world is a monster full of prejudice, corrupted by so-called virtues; it is puritan and fatuous. The secret of life is the art of challenging it. Challenging the world - that should be our aim, instead of living condescending its requests, like we always do.
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    "Yes" he continued "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.". [...] "This is your doing Henry"; said the painted sourly. Lord Henry shrugged: "This is the true Dorian Gray, that is all".
    Oscar Wilde
    from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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