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PHILOSOPHY: A Collection of Quotes: Socrates, Plato, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Alan W. Watts, Epictetus, Confucius and many more!

SAPIENS HUB is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest. SAPIENS HUB brings you a compilation of the very best quotes from the world’s most iconic humans takes on “PHILOSOPHY”, including: ― Malcolm X ― Eckhart Tolle ― Friedrich Nietzsche ― Lao Tzu ― Socrates ― Mark Twain ― Ludwig van Beethoven ― Plato ― Oscar Wilde ― Ralph Waldo Emerson ― Gabriel García Márquez ― Albert Camus ― Carl Sagan ― Albert Einstein ― Mahatma Gandhi ― Benjamin Franklin ― Stephen Hawking ― William Shakespeare ― Isaac Asimov ― J.R.R. Tolkien ― Richard Dawkins ― Alan W. Watts ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky ― Epictetus ― J.K. Rowling ― Woody Allen ― Confucius ― Kurt Vonnegut ― Neil deGrasse Tyson ― Bruce Lee ― Thomas Jefferson ― Aristotle ― Dalai Lama XIV ― Ludwig van Beethoven ― Alan W. Watts ― Hermann Hesse ― Henry David Thoreau ― Noam Chomsky ― Richard Feynman ― Stephen King ― Sun Tzu ― Marcus Aurelius ― Seneca ― Gautama Buddha ― Jean-Paul Sartre ― Alain de Botton ― Voltaire And many, many more!

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Oscar de la Renta; The Style, Inspiration, and Life of Oscar de la Renta (Legends)

Oscar de la Renta is one of the most celebrated and famed fashion designers and couturiers in the world—a renaissance man of American fashion. Born in the Dominican Republic, he has played a central role in the fashion scene for over forty years and has dressed everyone in the celebrity world. Brimming with images from Oscar de la Renta’s personal albums and iconic fashion photography, this beautifully updated volume of the 2002 edition of Oscar de la Renta: The Style, Inspiration, and Life of Oscar de la Renta gives an inside view of the designer’s creative inspirations and private world. Renowned fashion writer Sarah Mower chronicles the story of this always relevant and beloved luminary—from the beginning of his storied career through today—a man whose artistic, generous spirit transcends his fashion creations.

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The Oscar Wilde Lover’s Year 2018: Diary of Literary Quotes: A Page per Week

Born on 16th October 1854, in Dublin, Oscar Wilde the flamboyant author, playwright and poet wrote a novel, several plays and countless children’s stories.  His satirical wit was well known in Victorian England, but his infamous incarceration in Reading Gaol influenced his later work with themes of isolation and tragedy. Many of Wilde’s best loved plays, stories, poems and lesser known essays are quoted in The Oscar Wilde Lover’s Year, and the mood ranges as much as his own work between inspirational, tragic, political and bitingly witty.  If you weren’t a lover of Wilde’s work before 2018, you will be by 2019.   – High quality writing paper – Seasonal and relevant quote for each week of 2018    – Handy size (6 by 9 inches)    – Matt finish paperback

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The Importance of Being Earnest: By Oscar Wilde : Illustrated

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About The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play’s humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde’s artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde’s most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde’s career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde’s lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Soon afterwards their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde’s homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment. His notoriety caused the play, despite its early success, to be closed after 86 performances. After his release, he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no further comic or dramatic work. The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere. It has been adapted for the cinema on three occasions. In The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell; The Importance of Being Earnest (1992) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast; and Oliver Parker’s The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) incorporated some of Wilde’s original material cut during the preparation of the original stage production.

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Oscar Wilde Quotes… Vol.1: Motivational & Inspirational Life Quotes by Oscar Wilde (Volume 1)

Oscar Wilde Quotes… Vol.1 This book provides a selected collection of 204 quotes by Oscar Wilde, the artist’s background and further reading. ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’ ‘A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.’ Published by The Secret Libraries

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Oscar Wilde and his Wildest Quotes

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, was an Irish poet, novelist, playwright who got famous for his work by the end of 19th century. His famous work, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, made him acclaimed, which is considered to be one of the best of that time. After a series of very misfortune events, which included disgrace, imprisonment and exile, the dawn of twentieth century become the dusk of his life. Oscar Wilde was tormented very much internally and externally which leads to his departure from our world at the very age of forty six. Before he left us, along with his works, he also shared his thoughts in the form of memorable Quotations. The book, “Oscar Wilde and his Wildest Quotes”, is filled with a bit less than 2000 quotations of Oscar Wilde in different genres. It doesn’t matter whether you are a habitual reader or not, you should consider this book as a valuable collection for now and the time ahead.

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Oscar Wilde: Quotes & Facts

This book is an anthology of 230 brilliant quotes and aphorisms from Oscar Wilde and selected facts about Oscar Wilde. It grants his reflections on subjects ranging from Genius to Stupidity; in addition, the book shows the personality of Oscar Wilde into a different, more human light:   Oscar Wilde’s mother wanted a girl and often dressed the young Oscar in girls’ clothing.  Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray was based on John Gray, an incredibly handsome blond poet that Wilde met in 1889. Oscar Wilde’s mother was a feminist. Oscar Wilde died bankrupt, and his friends could only afford a sixth-class burial. Wilde married Constance Lloyd, daughter of wealthy Queen’s Counsel Horace Lloyd, on May 29, 1884 and had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan. Wilde’s intimate association with Alfred Douglas led to his trial on charges of homosexuality, then illegal in Britain. He was sentenced two years hard labor for the crime of sodomy. Oscar Wilde changed his name by the time of his death to Sebastian Melmoth. He called himself Sebastien because he loved a portrait of St Sebastien and Melmoth after the book “Melmoth the Wanderer”, which was written by his mother’s uncle. Oscar Wilde’s father had three illegitimate children before he married Jane Francesca Elegee.   “I have nothing to declare except my genius.” “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” “I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.” “There is no sin except stupidity.” “Some things are too important to be taken seriously.” “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” “Every woman is a rebel.” “Everything popular is wrong.” “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.” “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It’s been 11 years since Junot Díaz’s critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus “lovesick ghetto nerd” with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the story of a multi-generational family curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I’ve read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is funny, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf–you won’t be disappointed. –Brad Thomas Parsons

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