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Oscar Wilde

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.


— Oscar Wilde


#nature

Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.


— Oscar Wilde


#vida

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.


— Oscar Wilde


#religion #religion

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.


— Oscar Wilde


#pleasure #regret #experience

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.


— Oscar Wilde


#freedom

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.


— Oscar Wilde


#beauty

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #pleasure #humor

Those whom the gods love grow young.


— Oscar Wilde


#grow #love #those #whom #young

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.


— Oscar Wilde


#philosophy #life






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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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