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Oscar Wilde

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.


— Oscar Wilde


#friendship

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?


— Oscar Wilde


#christ

Irony is wasted on the stupid


— Oscar Wilde


#stupid #stupidity #stupidity

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love


— Oscar Wilde


#courage

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....


— Oscar Wilde


#mystery

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.


— Oscar Wilde


#terrorism

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.


— Oscar Wilde


#confession #sin #blame

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #business

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.


— Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #insult






About Oscar Wilde

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Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

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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