EJ Penn’s Reviews > Nothing... Except My Genius: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde > Status Update

P.29 “The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.”

Philistine: a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes; smugly commonplace or conventional.

P.28 “Every right article of apparel belongs equally to both sexes, and there is absolutely no such thing as a definitely feminine garment.”

Yes, queen! Go off! 👏🏼💅🏼🫰

P.25 “Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every work of art is the conversation of an idea into an image.”

Oh my god yes! Beautiful!

P.24 “To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
Ah, stunning, beautiful, amazing. Perfectly captures…