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Oscar Wilde

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.


— Oscar Wilde


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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.


— Oscar Wilde


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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.


— Oscar Wilde


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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.


— Oscar Wilde


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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.


— Oscar Wilde


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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.


— Oscar Wilde


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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.


— Oscar Wilde


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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.


— 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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