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Oscar Wilde

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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

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.


— Oscar Wilde


#love #life

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.


— Oscar Wilde


#america #been #detected #discovered #had

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.


— Oscar Wilde


#bad #good #optimism #pretend #seriously

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.


— Oscar Wilde


#funny

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.


— Oscar Wilde


#originality

Where there is no love there is no understanding.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.


— Oscar Wilde


#poetry #nature

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.


— Oscar Wilde


#art






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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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