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"Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of emipres. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return."
"For once, there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which is it joy and all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poinonous."
"I knew I should create a sensation... and he went out."
"not as he had lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination has created, as it had been in his brian and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange, terrible figures that had pasted along the stage of life, and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed that in some mysterious way, their lives had been his own."
Sebastion was the name Oscar assumed when he got out of prison (2 years for being a homosexual)
After Oscar once said, "I wish I'd written it" someone told him, "You will, Oscar, you will."
"Tracing a ladder to the stars."
Oscar was made fun of, and drawn holding lillies.
"Every great century that produces art is, so far, an artifical century, and the work that seems most natural and simply of it's time, is always the result of the most self-concious effort."
"Beauty revels everything, because it expresses nothing."
"The Aesthete Gives Characteristically Cynical Evidence, Replete with Pointed Epigram and Startiling Paradox, while Explaining his Views on Morality in Art." is a perfect discription of Oscar's works.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth."
"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner."
"The world is changed because your made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
"You get what you want and do what you will."
"Worlds are built out of suffering."
"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
"I lost my girlhood, true, but it was for you."
"I will mangle your mind."
"A real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them."
if you haven't seen the 1998 movie Wilde
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