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Oscar Wilde

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Die Männer heiraten, weil sie müde sind, die Frauen, weil sie neugierig sind. Beide werden enttäuscht.


— Oscar Wilde


#marriage

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.


— Oscar Wilde


#intelligence #sarcasm-humor #intelligence

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.


— Oscar Wilde


#irony #life

Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are - my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks - we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.


— Oscar Wilde


#profound #art

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.


— Oscar Wilde


#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.


— Oscar Wilde


#anything #devotion #knows #like #man

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.


— Oscar Wilde


#last #refuge #unimaginative

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.


— Oscar Wilde


#infinitely #ordinary #precious #precious things #real

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.


— Oscar Wilde


#delightful #i #merely #out #simply

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.


— Oscar Wilde


#life #only #other #tragedies #two






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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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