Excerpts from Oscar Wilde's plays, letters, and novel.https://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3mbyzfknlh22nThe aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self.09 Jan 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbyzfknlh22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lppkrh73r22aThe only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.21 May 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lppkrh73r22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lppkrh73r22aThe only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.21 May 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lppkrh73r22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l3pyn62w7i2kBehind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.09 Sep 2024 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3pyn62w7i2khttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3ljfpcnisk22jThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.02 Mar 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfpcnisk22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3ljfpcnisk22jThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.02 Mar 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfpcnisk22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l4r47jjyqb2vEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.22 Sep 2024 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4r47jjyqb2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lgj2d35n7k2aWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.24 Jan 2025 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgj2d35n7k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lazfcx57kc2tOh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.15 Nov 2024 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazfcx57kc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lgj2d35n7k2aWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.24 Jan 2025 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgj2d35n7k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l4hrnpn7ep2jMy experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.19 Sep 2024 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4hrnpn7ep2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l3bdkucy432qTo regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.03 Sep 2024 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3bdkucy432qhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3leamtdkrn22nThe truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!26 Dec 2024 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3leamtdkrn22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l5sf3vpa6y2cWhen one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.05 Oct 2024 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l5sf3vpa6y2chttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3leamtdkrn22nThe truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!26 Dec 2024 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3leamtdkrn22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lbskk7cmh226Oh, damn sympathy. There is a great deal too much of that sort of thing going on nowadays.25 Nov 2024 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbskk7cmh226https://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3ldtlgcixt22jIt is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.21 Dec 2024 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldtlgcixt22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3ldtlgcixt22jIt is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.21 Dec 2024 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldtlgcixt22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3ldhesomi7k2uYou don't seem to realize that in married life three is company and two is none.16 Dec 2024 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldhesomi7k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3ldhesomi7k2uYou don't seem to realize that in married life three is company and two is none.16 Dec 2024 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldhesomi7k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l3l7ljfrbt2pYou will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.07 Sep 2024 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3l7ljfrbt2phttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lbskk7cmh226Oh, damn sympathy. There is a great deal too much of that sort of thing going on nowadays.25 Nov 2024 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbskk7cmh226https://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l3ftcxtbbg2uMisfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life.05 Sep 2024 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3ftcxtbbg2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l4rnccgki224I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.22 Sep 2024 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4rnccgki224https://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l3avpyegso2iSuffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.03 Sep 2024 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3avpyegso2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3lazfcx57kc2tOh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.15 Nov 2024 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazfcx57kc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l4udsxmhib2qThis is the last time I shall ever look on you. You will never see me again. For one moment our lives met — our souls touched. They must never meet or touch again.24 Sep 2024 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4udsxmhib2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/oscarwildebot.bsky.social/post/3l37ppycw5d2gAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.03 Sep 2024 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:fag2fimkbl3kfxgfeppstgb6/app.bsky.feed.post/3l37ppycw5d2g