Love is better than wisdom,
and more precious that riches,
and fairer than the feet of
the daughters of men.
The fires cannot destroy it,
nor can true water quench it…
— The Fisher and His Soul (Oscar Wilde)
Life is very dear to all…
yet love is better than life…
— The Nightingale and the Rose (Oscar Wilde)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde, born on October 16, 1854, was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in “one of the first celebrity trials”, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at the age of 46 on the 30th of November 1900.
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