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Oscar Wilde

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.


— Oscar Wilde


#writers #writers-on-writing

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.


— Oscar Wilde


#regret #anxiety

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.


— Oscar Wilde


#everything #poet #survive

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.


— Oscar Wilde


#cowardice #conscience

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.


— Oscar Wilde


#secrets #love

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.


— Oscar Wilde


#gossip

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.


— Oscar Wilde


#vanity #vanity

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.


— Oscar Wilde


#america

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.


— Oscar Wilde


#beauty






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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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