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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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Most people are other people.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
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