Oscar Wilde Quotes

Yes: There Was To Be, As Lord Henry Had Prophesied, A New
Hedonism That Was To Recreate Life And To Save It From That Harsh
uncomely Puritanism That Is Having, In Our Own Day, Its Curious
revival. It Was To Have Its Service Of The Intellect, Certainly,
yet It Was Never To Accept Any Theory Or System That Would Involve
the Sacrifice Of Any Mode Of Passionate Experience. Its Aim,
indeed, Was To Be Experience Itself, And Not The Fruits Of
experience, Sweet Or Bitter As They Might Be. Of The Asceticism
that Deadens The Senses, As Of The Vulgar Profligacy That Dulls
them, It Was To Know Nothing. But It Was To Teach Man To
concentrate Himself Upon The Moments Of A Life That Is Itself But A
moment.

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