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Ideas of Oscar Wilde, by Text

[Irish, 1854 - 1900, Playwright, novelist, essayist, homosexual martyr.]

1891	Preface to 'Dorian Gray'

p.5

7274

Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral

p.5

7275

Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist

p.6

7276

All art is quite useless