Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
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I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:
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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
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Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
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... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.
Andrew ElfenbeinTags: oscar-wilde grammar
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
And falsehoods the truths of other people.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Dünyanın en güçlü insanı bile olsan, sevdiğine karşı kaybedersin.
Oscar WildeTags: oscar-wilde
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.
Harold BloomTags: reading poetry oscar-wilde canon
The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.
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