By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.

I literally hated every second of it. The being-outside, not the book. Nature is the worst. I got quite truly eaten alive by bugs, and I'm of the firm belief that if you get bitten by something then you should turn into something cool. When you get bitten by a vampire, you become a vampire. When you get bitten by a radioactive exotic spider in a lab, because the spider escaped its cage/prison even though the #1 priority of the scientists who work there should be to keep that spooky lil thing in its cage, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS A FIELD TRIP IN THE VERY SAME ROOM, you become Spiderman.

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Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?" The musings and observations that fill this little book are wonderfully entertaining. Despite his arrogance, one can’t help but be amused. The witticisms range from sad and cynical to just pure brilliant and beautiful depending on the mood social media influencer Oscar Wilde is in. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-01-01 15:29:52 Boxid IA1998214 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author’s reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact." Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them".

Initially, I thought this was going to be a piece of short prose by Wilde and was surprised I couldn't find it in any collections of his works. So I bought the thankfully cheap e-book. It turned out to be a collection of Oscar Wilde's quotes and aphorisms. Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognizance … It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves. For what is Truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.” High hopes were once formed by democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people" that made me feel awesome while participating in the very art-centric activity of reading a book of Oscar Wilde quotes.

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LIFE CHEATS US WITH SHADOWS. WE ASK IT FOR PLEASURE. IT GIVES IT TO US, WITH BITTERNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN ITS TRAIN. Oh, it is indeed a burning shame that there would be one law for men and another law for women. I think that there should be no law for anybody.” To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”