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Oscar Wilde

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.


— Oscar Wilde


#youth

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #soul #spiritual-development #truth #experience

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.


— Oscar Wilde


#art

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it.


— Oscar Wilde


#equality

Man is many things, but he is not rational.


— Oscar Wilde


#psychology

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.


— Oscar Wilde


#uncertainty

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.


— Oscar Wilde


#dreams #hopeless #imagination #dreams

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure


— Oscar Wilde


#failure

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.


— Oscar Wilde


#people #death






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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