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Oscar Wilde

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.


— Oscar Wilde


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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.


— Oscar Wilde


#act #always #animal #called #dictates

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.


— Oscar Wilde


#only #past #people #should #way

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.


— Oscar Wilde


#classes #divided #improbable #incredible #into

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.


— Oscar Wilde


#critical #imagination #imitates #spirit

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.


— Oscar Wilde


#dead #great #great work #moment #think

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.


— Oscar Wilde


#always #ceased #emotions #love #people

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.


— Oscar Wilde


#germ #growth #proceeds #which

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.


— Oscar Wilde


#bad #equally #mob #monarch #necessity

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.


— Oscar Wilde


#impossible #improbable #man #never






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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