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Oscar Wilde

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.


— Oscar Wilde


#mistakes #life

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.


— Oscar Wilde


#personality #rebellion

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.


— Oscar Wilde


#fairy-tale #magical-realism #realism #art

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.


— Oscar Wilde


#envious #envy #life #life

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton.


— Oscar Wilde


#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.


— Oscar Wilde


#education

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.


— Oscar Wilde


#family #humor #family

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.


— Oscar Wilde


#invitation #humor

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance


— Oscar Wilde


#humor






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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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