To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

I want a life filled with poetry and dirty sex, red skies and magic stories, goosebumps and a love that feels like sunday worship. I want a life so full and so human, it hurts.

Everytime the lights in the room I'm in flicker, I like to pretend its because of me and I'm just too powerful to handle.

“​​Soltanto ciò che è delicato ,

e concepito con delicatezza,

può dare nutrimento all'amore.

All'odio , invece ,

tutto dà nutrimento.”

— Oscar Wilde

Rereading parts of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Thoughts: Lord Henry is LITERALLY the devil. Like an allegory for the devil. Think about it. Anyways totally unrelated to that thought but this...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

— Oscar Wilde 

may i present you

penguin pingu classics

Normalise liking poetry because you like the way it sounds and art because you think its beautiful. You don’t have to understand the deeper meaning of something to appreciate it - poetry is bloody difficult to analyse and art requires an extensive knowledge of movements and artists to properly get - so please just wonder around art galleries and decide which pieces you’d buy if you could, and read out lines of poetry simply because they have a nice ring to them.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

-Oscar Wilde

I love my English lectures but one thing that genuinely upsets me is seeing how many works of Irish literature are claimed as or assumed to be “British literature”. Like Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde and Seamus Heaney weren’t British artists...they were Irish. Why does Britain get to take credit for Irish pieces???

I wish everyone would admit that classic literature is inherently difficult to read, and that you shouldn’t feel stupid if you don’t “get it”. Especially the dark academia/ classic lit fandoms and stuff. Like unless you have the vocabulary and pop culture knowledge of an 18th century nobleman, it’s going to be a tough read. It’ll take you longer to read; you’re not stupid if you’ve spent several months on a single book! And you don’t have to enjoy everything. It’s okay if you got bored after one chapter of Wuthering Heights, and couldn’t be bothered to read the rest. It’s okay if you want to read your favourite kids book for the 10th time instead. You’re not stupid. No piece of literature is inherently better, more “important”, more “meaningful”, or more “intellectual” than another. First and foremost, read what brings you joy.

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

They say if we are sitting on the stars and watching the earth, we'd see ourselves from years ago. That means if this love doesn't last, someday we could be looking at the same stars and the stars would look back at us and see us years ago when we were together and in love.

No one :

Me : *Going absolute feral at 2 am*

I HAVE TO LEARN LATIN AND FRENCH. I HAVE TO LEARN PLAYING PIANO AND GUITAR. I HAVE TO WRITE A POEM ABOUT THAT BOY I SAW IN THE LIBRARY. I HAVE TO TELL THE MOON HOW PRETTY SHE IS.

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)

Oscar Wilde // Franz Kafka

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”   ― Oscar Wilde

1,3. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 2.Anne Carson, Euripides | 4.Malcolm T. Liepke | 5.@i-wrotethisforme | 6,9,11,14.Hanya Yanagihara | 7.Arnold Lobel | 8.E. M. Forster | 10.Peter Wever | 12.Joseph Lorusso | 13.Ocean Vuong

Same, Mr Wilde... same

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Oscar Wilde