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Oscar Wilde

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One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.


— Oscar Wilde


#age

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.


— Oscar Wilde


#love

I don’t think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.  Hopelessly doesn’t seem to make much sense, does it?


— Oscar Wilde


#sense #funny

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.


— Oscar Wilde


#death #freedom #death

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.


— Oscar Wilde


#marriage #regrets #life

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #life

[W]as verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.


— Oscar Wilde


#sin #age

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.


— Oscar Wilde


#art #books #art

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.


— Oscar Wilde


#experience

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.


— Oscar Wilde


#romance #surrender #love






About Oscar Wilde

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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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