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Oscar Wilde

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.


— Oscar Wilde


#buy #enough #his #man #past

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.


— Oscar Wilde


#pleasure

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.


— Oscar Wilde


#attraction

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.


— Oscar Wilde


#past

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.


— Oscar Wilde


#proofreading #poem

Hearts Live By Being Wounded


— Oscar Wilde


#love #oscar-wilde #wound #love

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.


— Oscar Wilde


#himself #man #think #who

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.


— Oscar Wilde


#get #nothing #one thing #thing #you






About Oscar Wilde

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One evening after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. " which Wilde had begun in 1887 was first publiOscar Wilded in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public.

At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. As a spokesman for aestheticism he tried his hand at various literary activities: he publiOscar Wilded a book of poems lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.

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