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“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.”
— Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 6, p. 59.
“"Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," [Wilde] said laughing, "so education is the curse of the acting classes."”
— Oscar Wilde (1916) ch. 11.
“My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me, I would have had to submit.”
— Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) pp. 100-101.
“Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.”
— Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 164.
“I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.”
— Quoted in George Jean Nathan The World of George Jean Nathan (1952) p. 252.
“The pleasure of being with you is in the clash of personality, the intellectual battle, the war of ideas. To survive you one must have a strong brain, an assertive ego, a dynamic character. In your luncheon-parties, in old days, the remains of the guests were taken away with the débris of the feast. I have often lunched with you in Park Lane and found myself the only survivor.”
— Oscar Wilde, letter to Frank Harris, June 13, 1897, in The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962) p. 608.

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