bookoasis:Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde.October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”   —  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde.

October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”

   —  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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