When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality

Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: marriage definitions wordplay



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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: humour



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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal

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nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: experience education knowledge



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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde


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