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...
May 21st
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May 21st
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
– Oscar Wilde (via katialeephotography)
May 21st
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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)
May 20th
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May 20th
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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)
May 20th
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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. (via vyvyan-holland)
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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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)
May 18th
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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.
May 2nd
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March 2013
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Mar 31st
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“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via mylittleloaf)
Mar 31st
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aliya69viktoria: 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...
Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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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)
Mar 30th
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“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely...”
– Oscar Wilde (via shrookasfour)
Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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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)
Mar 29th
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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)
Mar 28th
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Mar 28th
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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)
Mar 28th
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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)
Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
– Oscar Wilde (via tumbrloslav)
Mar 27th
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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)
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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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)
Mar 26th
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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)
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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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)
Mar 25th
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde (via seennothingyet)
Mar 24th
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Mar 13th
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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)
Mar 13th
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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)
Mar 12th
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Mar 12th
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“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or...”
– Oscar Wilde (via coolcatmatt)
Mar 12th
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“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray (via thelove-thieves)
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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“The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what...”
– Oscar Wilde (via smallgreycat)
Mar 11th
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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)
Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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#19 The Silence Of Love
lrnhrnndz: 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...
Mar 10th
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““There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully,...”
– (via snailontheslope)
Mar 9th
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Mar 9th
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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)
Mar 9th
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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 (via larien-vardamir-arcamonel)
Mar 8th
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Mar 8th
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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)
Mar 8th
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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde (via thaitony)
Mar 7th
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