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Essay•Literary Criticism•Aesthetics

The Decay of Lying

Oscar Wilde(1889)
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Pages: 32
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043701-0

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Wilde's witty dialogue on the superiority of art over nature and the importance of imagination.

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Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

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The Decay of Lying

Oscar Wilde

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Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Nature is so uncomfortable. Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

The only real people are the people who never existed.