May 2013
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Thank You.
I would like to thank everyone who follows this blog for their patience, and now finally, after a bit over a month and a half, everything’s going back to normal and the blog is back and better than ever.
Also, I would like to thank everyone who wished me luck on my thesis, it was very nice of you.
Now that we’re back, don’t forget to submit and/or ask stuff, tomorrow is...
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
– Oscar Wilde (via katialeephotography)
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“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world except take exercise, get...”
– Oscar Wilde- The Picture of Dorian Gray (via quotesandnonsense)
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“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course,...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1887 (via vyvyan-holland)
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“Tread Lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The...”
– Requiescat, Oscar Wilde, 1881
Wilde wrote this poem for his sister Isola, who died of meningitis aged 9.
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“I like talking to a brick wall- it’s the only thing in the world that never...”
– Oscar Wilde- Lady Windermere’s Fan (via quotesandnonsense)
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Bear with me on this one.
I know I haven’t updated this blog (or any blog) in weeks, but please bear with me on this one, I’m actually writing my thesis (that’s a dissertation for you british lovelies) and I really have to focus on it.
So be patient, this blog will be back in all its Wildean glory very soon (Hopefully in a week).
Thank you.
March 2013
57 posts
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“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via mylittleloaf)
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As oftentimes the too resplendent sun Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won A single ballad from the nightingale, So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail, And all my sweetest singing out of tune. And as at dawn across the level mead On wings impetuous some wind will come, And with its too harsh kisses break the reed Which was its...
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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it...”
– Oscar Wilde (via ceruleanmermaid13)
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely...”
– Oscar Wilde (via shrookasfour)
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“[t]he best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it...”
– Oscar Wilde as quoted in a story at NPR Books (via deadbeatpoet)
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“This sounds strange to you all, no doubt. How could it sound other than strange?...”
– Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” (via shivainlondon)
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“For the real artist is he who proceeds, not from feeling to form, but from form...”
– Oscar Wilde - “The Critic as Artist,” pp. 42-3 (via writingcapital)
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“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me....”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via invincible-summer-within-me)
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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
– Oscar Wilde (via tumbrloslav)
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde, 1888 (via porcelain-bones)
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“When I think about religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via ontologicalshakedown)
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“Let them both be branded. Set a mark, if you wish, on each other, but don’t...”
– Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” (via shivainlondon)
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“The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for...”
– Oscar Wilde (via bryan-pinkerton)
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde (via seennothingyet)
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“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both...”
– The Importance of Being Earnest (via holidayfrumreal)
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“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only...”
– De Profundis, Oscar Wilde (via birdonwing)
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“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or...”
– Oscar Wilde (via coolcatmatt)
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“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray (via thelove-thieves)
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“The vilest deeds like poison weeds
Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what...”
– Oscar Wilde (via smallgreycat)
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“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always...”
– Oscar Wilde // The Importance of Being Earnest (via speaktomeinindigo)
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#19 The Silence Of Love
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As often-times the too resplendent sun Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won A single ballad from the nightingale, So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail, And all my sweetest singing out of tune. And as at dawn across the level mead On wings impetuous some wind will come, And with its too harsh kisses break the reed Which was its only...
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““There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully,...”
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“he who can look at the loveliness of the world and share its sorrow, and realise...”
– De Profundis, Oscar Wilde (via birdonwing)
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“There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go...”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...”
– Oscar Wilde (via solenoidanemia)
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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde (via thaitony) 