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    Oscar Wilde

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    The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #life

    Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #future-prediction #inspirational #reality-of-life #spontaneity #art

    The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #science #science

    You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #dreams

    the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #sin #life

    this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #beauty

    The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #wilde #humor

    We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #art #uselessness #utility #art

    For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #life

    Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. ↗


    — Oscar Wilde

    #humour #mythology #men






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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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