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Oscar Wilde

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


— Oscar Wilde


#people #death

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.


— Oscar Wilde


#age #women #age

I drink to separate my body from my soul.


— Oscar Wilde


#drink #oscar-wilde #soul #separation

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!


— Oscar Wilde


#obdurate #humor

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.


— Oscar Wilde


#self #struggle

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.


— Oscar Wilde


#imagine #know #money #old #sarcasm

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon


— Oscar Wilde


#procrastination #humor

Wisdom comes with winters


— Oscar Wilde


#age

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.


— Oscar Wilde


#morality #scandal #gossip






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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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