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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis Quotes

“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”

“They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.”