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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
culture · Irish writer (1854–1900) · poet · playwright · short story writer · children's writer · novelist · writer · author · prose writer · opinion journalist · essayist · also Oscar Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde, Wilde
Born 16 October 1854 · Died 30 November 1900 · Q30875
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“be possible to build an airier castle in Spain than this of the imaginary William Hughes”
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“he had no enemies but was intensely disliked by his friends”
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“, and of Marion Crawford that”
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“the only blot on my tutorship”
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El Comercio Perú: Cita del día, Oscar Wilde, escritor: “Lo menos frecuente en este mundo es vivir. La mayoría de la gente existe”
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinion
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Vistazo: La gran reflexión de Oscar Wilde: "Los hijos comienzan amando a sus padres; a medida que crecen, los juzgan; a veces, los perdonan"
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Galerie Magazine: A London Property with Ties to The Beatles and Oscar Wilde Lists for $9.39 Million
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radiociudadoran.com.ar: Oscar Wilde fue reelecto al frente de la Comisión Directiva de los Bomberos Voluntarios de Orán
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TN: Oscar Wilde, escritor, aseguraba en 1891: “Vivir es lo más raro del mundo, la mayoría de la gente existe, eso es todo”
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FilaSiete: 10 películas basadas en obras de Óscar Wilde
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El Debate: Oscar Wilde, escritor: «Una vida sin amor es como un jardín sin sol cuando las flores han muerto»
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Style Weekly: Days of Being Wilde
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IMDb: La importancia de llamarse Oscar Wilde (2018)
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: ‘ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people…’A powerful warni
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El Confidencial: Frase del día de Oscar Wilde: "Un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer siempre y cuando no la ame..."
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Murray Ledger and Times: Playhouse puts film noir twist on Oscar Wilde
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Understanding Oscar Wilde | His Life, Works, & Death
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Robb Report: Inside a $9.3 Million London Home With Ties to Oscar Wilde and the Beatles
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Revista Merca2.0: Oscar Wilde, writer: ‘A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her’
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Revista Merca2.0: Oscar Wilde, escritor: “Un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer siempre y cuando no la ame”
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OkDiario: Oscar Wilde: «En la vida, un buen amigo siempre te apuñalará por delante»
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rock101online.mx: La delicadeza poética de Oscar Wilde definiendo el sonido de Norman Cook en su obra maestra
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rock101online.mx: La delicadeza poetica de Oscar Wilde, confirmada en la obra maestra de Norman Cook
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UCL | University College London: Oscar Wilde’s hotel room discovered at Brighton’s Royal Albion
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BBC: Oscar Wilde suite rediscovered at Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton
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The British Library restored Wilde's library card after the conviction-related revocation of the card 130 years before
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Snopes rated the claim “Oscar Wilde said, "Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."” Incorrect Attribution.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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Matthew Sturgis' Oscar: A Life, was published in London
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Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967)
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In cooperation with Church of the Village in New York City, then moved to Studio Voltaire in London the next year
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Wilde was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighbourhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields"
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The tomb was cleaned of the many lipstick marks left there by admirers and a glass barrier was installed to prevent further marks or damage
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Leon Johnson, a multimedia artist, installed a silver prosthesis to replace them
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It was the basis for the British film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character
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Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment
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Remarked how The Soul of Man Under Socialism had been an inspirational text for revolutionaries in Tsarist Russia but laments that in the Stalinist era "it is doubtful whether there are any uninspected places in which it
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His remains were disinterred and transferred to the Père Lachaise Cemetery, inside the city
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And in full in 1962 in his Complete Letters), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure
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As De Profundis; its complete and correct publication first occurred in 1962 in The Letters of Oscar Wilde
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“Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship”
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Died 1900-11-30.
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“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
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“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
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“It is very much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it… Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. (ang.)”
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“Time is waste of money. (ang.)”
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
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“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain. (ang.)”
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“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”
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“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”
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“I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability. (ang.)”
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“Aqueles que não fazem nada estão sempre dispostos a criticar os que fazem algo.”
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Career landmark: funeral.
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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
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“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
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“A vida imita a arte muito mais do que a arte imita a vida..”
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Studied at Trinity College, Dublin.
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“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. (ang.)”
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“There is no sin except stupidity.”
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“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune… to lose both seems like carelessness. (ang.)”
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Studied at Magdalen College.
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“Whenever there exists a demand, there is no supply. (ang.)”
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. (ang.)”
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. (ang.)”
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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
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For gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts
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In the original French, and in London a year later in Lord Alfred Douglas's English translation with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, though it was not performed until 1896 in Paris, during Wilde's incarceration
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Another Victorian comedy, revolving around the spectre of illegitimate births, mistaken identities and late revelations
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Published two more collections, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and in September A House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde"
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But eventually decided to limit it to purely aesthetic subjects
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Was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889
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While at Oxford, Wilde met Robert Ross
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When Wilde was lecturing at the Gaiety Theatre
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“Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”
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To Constance Lloyd, daughter of Horace Lloyd, a wealthy Queen's Counsel (lawyer)
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Completed his first play, Vera; or, The Nihilists, a tragic melodrama about Russian nihilism, and distributed privately printed copies to various actresses whom he hoped to interest in its sole female role
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Awarded Newdigate Prize presented by University of Oxford for Ravenna (1878).
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When he met the Reverend Sebastian Bowden, a priest in the Brompton Oratory who had received some high-profile converts
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Only briefly visiting Ireland twice after that
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Wilde was left speechless after an audience with Pope Pius IX in Rome
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When Wilde was seventeen, his elder half-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned at a dance at Drumacon, Co Monaghan
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For his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland
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Born 1854-10-16.
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To one woman, and Emily and Mary Wilde, born in 1847 and 1849, respectively, to a second woman
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