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"Life imitates art"

I just had a revelation.

When Oscar Wilde said "Life imitates art" he was saying that art, like the divine, is an ideal, just like how Descartes argued that since humans are imperfect, we must have a perfect cause of which we are an image, and that perfect cause is God. And with "Life imitates art", art is the perfect cause, our ideals/fantasies by which we desire to live our lives but cannot because we a tragically inhibited from being perfect and void of all moral consequences

#life imitates art #oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray

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THE CRITIC AS ARTIST. Oscar Wilde, 1891

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Life of Oscar Wilde

#oscar wilde #19th Century

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more illustrations taken from ‘Matériaux et documents d'architecture et de sculpture, Paris, 1872-1914′. definitely recommend taking a look at it if your studying architecture or even if you’re just an enthusiast.

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Ahh... the sweet sound of procrastination

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Salome Dancing before Herod (1876) —Gustave Moreau 

“With a withdrawn, solemn, almost august expression on her face, she begins the lascivious dance which is to rouse the aged Herod's dormant senses; her breasts rise and fall, the nipples hardening at the touch of her whirling necklaces; the strings of diamonds glitter against her moist flesh; her bracelets, her belts, her rings all spit out fiery sparks; and across her triumphal robe, sewn with pearls, patterned with silver, spangled with gold, the jewelled cuirass, of which every chain is a precious stone, seems to be ablaze with little snakes of fire, swarming over the mat flesh, over the tea-rose skin, like gorgeous insects with dazzling shards, mottled with carmine, spotted with pale yellow, speckled with steel blue, striped with peacock green.” —Joris-Karl Huysmans, A Rebours (1884)

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Hélas! (1881)

To read a compelling analysis of ‘Hélas!’ visit the following link

#oscar wilde #oscar #19th Century #helas #dark academia #père lachaise #light acadamia aesthetic #wilde #Lord Alfred Douglas #poem #poetry #authors #Author #aestheticism #decadence

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Source: dilarayarci, via IslamicArtDB

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

— Oscar Wilde

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I've been searching for a blog like yours for so long and I’m so happy now that I’ve found it! Thanks for all of your beautiful content.

Well I’m so happy to hear it! Thank you so much for your praise kind-hearted stranger. Besides, you showered my blog with exactly 69 notes; you may now officially consider yourself superior to all my followers.

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Sarony 3A

New Sarony Photograph Identified

A rarely seen image of Oscar Wilde has recently been added to the series of photographs taken by Napoleon Sarony on January 5th, 1882.

Its rarity is evidenced by the fact that it does not appear to have been been published in any publicly available print medium to date, nor anywhere else previously online.

However, a proof print of it has lain dormant in the…

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I often betray myself with a kiss.

Oscar Wilde in a letter to Ada Leverson - September 23, 1894. (via wildestically)

#oscar wilde #19th Century #quote #literature #classic literature

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