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Oscar Wilde

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Behind every exquisite thing that exists, there is something tragic.” - Lord Henry Wotton.


— Oscar Wilde


#beauty #mess #muck #tragedy #beauty

Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.


— Oscar Wilde


#reflective #inspirational

Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.


— Oscar Wilde


#women #marriage

Art, like Nature, has her monsters


— Oscar Wilde


#monsters #nature #art

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.


— Oscar Wilde


#criticism #oscar-wilde #peril #read #surface

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.


— Oscar Wilde


#principles #witty #dating

Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.


— Oscar Wilde


#life

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.


— Oscar Wilde


#poetry #prose #life

Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea


— Oscar Wilde


#marriage

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.


— Oscar Wilde


#beauty






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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