Oscar Wilde Published

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    The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    But poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he has to ride a rocking horse to find a winner.
    —Anthony PĂ©lissier. Anthony PĂ©lissier. Oscar (Ronald Squire)

    Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called?
    Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)