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Intentions: The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks

ByOscar Wilde

Paradox is never so absolutely king as when you try to determine the separate ways of life and of literature. The poet lives his life, you say, and that is one matter; the poem lives its life, and that is quite another matter. Between the writer and his writings the discriminating must observe divorce. . . . Then, directly contradicting, is the theory of the goodly who are touched with the taint of Puritanism. Every written line, these hold, is the intimate expression of self. The sinner cannot write other than sinful things.

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Oct 15, 2013
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English
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By (author): Oscar Wilde

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