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Century Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
- Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is…
- I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of…
- the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
- Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an…
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