Oscar Wilde told André Gide that he had put his genius into his life, and only his talent into his writing. It’s a typical Oscar Wilde thing to say, especially since he’d all but stopped writing at that point, and if you’ve read about Oscar Wilde, you’ll know it’s best to take anything he says with a grain of salt. Because, you know, hello to the self-dramatizing! But I have to say, in reference to this remark: although I read about Oscar Wilde all the time, I almost never read anything he’s written. Sometimes I’ll get in a mood and…
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