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Oscar Wilde

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.


— Oscar Wilde


#every #fashion #form #intolerable #months

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.


— Oscar Wilde


#wild

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.


— Oscar Wilde


#beginning #lifelong #oneself #romance #to love

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.


— Oscar Wilde


#always #am #i #i am #satisfied

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.


— Oscar Wilde


#mercy #want

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.


— Oscar Wilde


#food #thanksgiving #family

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.


— Oscar Wilde


#live #living #others #selfishness #wishes

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.


— Oscar Wilde


#about #ever #far #important #seriously

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.


— Oscar Wilde


#humor

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.


— Oscar Wilde


#carelessness #like #looks #lose #may






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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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