Oscar Wilde Quotes
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. John Lane, 1894, p. 77.
As Tolstoy wrote in Russian, there are different versions of this quote based on specific translations. See the related quotes for different versions by different translators.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.