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This reads as a picture of the person who lives ahead of the crowd, guided by instinct and imagination rather than ordinary certainty. It can be taken to mean that sensitivity has a cost, because the dreamer notices light and change earlier than others and may feel out of step with the world around him. It lands for anyone whose ideas arrive before acceptance does.
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About Oscar Wilde
Irish author, poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright of the late 19th century. He became one of London’s most popular and influential dramatists in the early 1890s, and is closely associated with the Aestheticism movement. He is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his epigrams, plays and children’s stories. His writing often combines wit, style and pointed observation, and his reputation is also shaped by his 1895 criminal conviction for gross indecency and for practising homosexual acts.
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Books by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
His only novel, full of quotable lines.