Oscar Wilde
"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely."
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Courtesy of Wikiquote
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, available online (for free download).
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Famous World Trials.
Transcripts from The Trial of Oscar Wilde.
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The Oscar Wilde Society.
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Courtesy of Guardian.co.uk Top 10s
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CHAPTER 1: The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so... |
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Against these turbid turquoise skies The light and luminous balloons Dip and drift like satin moons, Drift like silken butterflies; Reel with every windy gust, Rise and reel like dancing girls, Float like strange transparent pearls, Fall and float like silver dust. Now to the low leaves they cling, Each with coy fantastic pose, Each a petal of a rose Straining at a gossamer string. Then to the tall trees they climb, |
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