Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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| — | Oscar Wilde |
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which require strength, great strength and courage to yield to.
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| — | Oscar Wilde |
Oscar Wilde - Irish writer, playwright, and poet. He was famous for his witty epigrams and his plays Salome, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windemere’s Fan, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He lived a life of ascetic extravagance until his incarceration under anti-homosexuality laws and he was sentenced to two years hard labor before his death, destitute in a hotel at the age of forty-six. In these last few moments, he was able to deliver one of his more famous epigrams: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely— or dragging out some false, shallow existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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The 16th is not a good day for me, but the 16th of October happens to be Oscar Wilde’s birthday. Given that I adore him, tonight’s update is interspersed with some of my favorite Wilde quotes. I couldn’t remember them all off the top of my head, so others may follow. Quite simply, the man was a genius.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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| — | Oscar Wilde |
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his own way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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| — | Oscar Wilde |
