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OSCAR WILDE ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF CONVERSATION

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“The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

Oscar Wilde

OSCAR WILDE ~ ON BEAUTY

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

OSCAR WILDE ~ ON POETS

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
~Oscar Wilde

OSCAR WILDE ~ A WORK OF ART

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“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

Oscar Wilde

OSCAR WILDE ~ SOUL AND SENSES

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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

Oscar Wilde (The picture of Dorian Gray)

OSCAR WILDE ~ ON ART

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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar Wilde

AUBREY BEARDSLEY ~ DREAMS

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“Dreams” 1894 by Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898)

“Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy…”
Oscar Wilde (The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde)

OSCAR WILDE ~ ON KISSING

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“A kiss may ruin a human life”

Oscar Wilde

Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic

1854-1900

Le Baiser, 1886

Auguste Toulmouche

Auguste Toulmouche (September 21, 1829 – October 16, 1890) was a French Painter.

He studied with Charles Gleyre and is known mainly for his portraits of Parisian women; Emile Zola spoke of “Toulmouche’s delicious dolls.”

He was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

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OSCAR WILDE ~ ON DREAMING

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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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