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Oscar Wilde

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M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life.


— Oscar Wilde


#realism #romanticism #dating

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor #wilde #age

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.


— Oscar Wilde


#experience

Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.


— Oscar Wilde


#men

Life has always poppies in her hands.


— Oscar Wilde


#nature #life

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.


— Oscar Wilde


#illusions #courage

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.


— Oscar Wilde


#love #sorrow #love

We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what was dead was Hope.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational






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Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

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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