The Essential Oscar Wilde, p.344, Simon and Schuster. The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, p.205, Wordsworth Editions. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above ones head, and listen to silence. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (267) An expert is someone who doesnt know more than you, but uses vugraphs. Oscar Wilde said, wrote, Id like to get it right so Im not accused of lying, Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it. I can resist everything except temptation. (268) The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. That it should be so, the world does not understand. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the "Love that dare not speak its name," and on account of it I am placed where I am now. This connection results as much from the lurid details of his life as from his considerable contributions to English literature. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. No name is more inextricably bound to the aesthetic movement of the 1880s and 1890s in England than that of Oscar Wilde. ![]() It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. ![]() “The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.
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