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Oscar Wilde

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The heart was made to be broken.


— Oscar Wilde


#love #love

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.


— Oscar Wilde


#dies #man #necessarily #thing #true

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.


— Oscar Wilde


#god #humor #man #humor

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.


— Oscar Wilde


#experience

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.


— Oscar Wilde


#inspirational

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.


— Oscar Wilde


#ordinary #people #love

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.


— Oscar Wilde


#him #himself #his #least #man

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.


— Oscar Wilde


#diary #i #never #read #sensational

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.


— Oscar Wilde


#sex #world

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.


— Oscar Wilde


#romance #love






About Oscar Wilde

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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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