"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

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The theme of love is universal, yet Oscar Wilde manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on love often shapes our reality.

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.

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"It is a steadfast truth that fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

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