Only the shallow know themselves.
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
The Oscar Wilde 30-Day Challenge
Wildean Swallow, a meme wilde about Wilde.
"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
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Oscar Wilde (via yourexistentialistgrandma)
" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "
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Oscar Wilde (via theangularperspective)
"Basil, my dear boy, puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (via thingsthatmakemesmilee)
"I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
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Lord Darlington “Lady Windermere’s Fan” (via melancoliaii)
"Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body."
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Oscar Wilde (via melancoliaii)
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, done in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley’s contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis.
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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Oscar Wilde (via runawayrocketboy)
"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
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