Only the shallow know themselves.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What...

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Wilde Valentines: The Photoset.

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There are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance—that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are mere shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or what we long someday to feel…Sometimes I think the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide, and am sorry that it is so.

Oscar Wilde, about his estranged marriage to Constance Lloyd.

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Oscar Wilde was born 161 years ago today. He was one of the first writers I felt a real affinity with and I have been a voracious fan ever since. I hoped to produce a new piece for the occasion, but ran out of time. Instead, I will share work from the last few years.  

As he was the master of quotables I will also leave a few of my favorites here:

“You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you.” –Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.” –Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” – Oscar Wilde, in conversation

Original work is available: here

Prints, tees, etc.: here

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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde.

You’re still relevant, don’t worry. 

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

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So, it’s Oscar Wilde’s Birthday

I thought you’d like to know. You may now celebrate accordingly.

But first I shall share with you this photo and this story

The caption is the best part. From the Salome (Play) entry on Wikipedia:

“Alice Guszalewicz as Salome in the Richard Strauss opera, c. 1910. Richard Ellmann misidentified this photograph in his 1987 biography as “Wilde in costume as Salome,” the error being finally corrected in 2000.[14]“

So, go and celebrate Oscar Wilde’s birthday with this photo that isn’t a picture of him.

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 "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.“     Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface

Happy Birthday to Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854)

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Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! A toast, to the legacy of excess, class, dandies, and Sir Henry Wotton. May the Fleurs du mal bloom evermore~

Xanthe CL Zeitstück (via fiction-minds)

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Pre-party selfie in my Oscar Wilde shirt!

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16th of October - Happy Birthday to the wonderful and fantastic Oscar Wilde! Born: October 16th 1854 “We are all in the gutter but some if us are reaching to the stars” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Happy happy birthday, from all of us to you! We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! 🎈🎂🎁🎉

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in honour of his birthday please know oscar wilde’s full name was oscar fingal o’flahertie wills wilde

imagine looking at a newborn baby and thinking ‘you know what’s a really good name for this tiny human? oscar fingal o’flahertie wills wilde’

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Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde!

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Happy 161st birthday, Oscar Wilde!