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The Pictvre of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde - 1904 - 366 pages
...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elett to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. xiii The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass....
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Sebastian Melmoth [and] The Soul of Man

Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1905 - 236 pages
...Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that is all. Marriage is a sort of forcing house. It brings strange sins to fruit, and sometimes...
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Decorative Art in America: A Lecture

Oscar Wilde - 1906 - 356 pages
...dislike. — Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young; also, An Ideal Husband. There is no sach thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. — The Preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray." " It is in working within limits that the master reveals...
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The Writings of Oscar Wilde ...

Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 302 pages
...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. ., There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...
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De Boekzaal: maandelyksch bibliografisch tydschrift, Volume 5

Bibliography - 1911 - 340 pages
...hebben; een goed boek, dat men zou wenschen geschreven te hebben. There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. De toekomst is een boek vol onbeschreven bladen. Hoe ze zullen ingevuld worden hangt voor een goed...
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English Literature, 1880-1905

John McFarland Kennedy - English literature - 1912 - 366 pages
...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....written, or badly written. That is all. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies....
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Portraits and Speculations

Arthur Ransome - Literature, Modern - 1913 - 248 pages
...Whistler did also ; and Wilde, a little later than they, remarked : "All art is quite useless," and "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written or badly written. That is all." AVith this doctrine of art for art's sake we are now dissatisfied. We object to it, not for the sake...
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Novels and Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - English Novel - 1915 - 1054 pages
...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...
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The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - Prose literature - 1916 - 726 pages
...cultivated. For these there is hope. 877 They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...
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Das Drama: Von Voltaire zu Lessing

Bruno Busse - Drama - 1919 - 140 pages
...ib.nen oerlangt. pb,ilofop^ie unb Religion Dermögen bies allein" ober (Dsïar IDilbes prooo3ierenbem „No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy...an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style". Soburfenroirunsnidjttmmbern, юепп Diberot fid? felbft als Sdjüler Hidjarbfons betradjtet unb mit...
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