Oscar Wilde quote about life from The Picture of Dorian Gray - One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). copy citation

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Author Oscar Wilde
Source The Picture of Dorian Gray
Topic life details vulgarity
Date 1890
Language English
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“They have become stout and tedious, and when I meet them, they go in at once for reminiscences. That awful memory of woman! What a fearful thing it is! And what an utter intellectual stagnation it reveals! One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
"I must sow poppies in my garden," sighed Dorian.
"There is no necessity," rejoined his companion. "Life has always poppies in her hands. Of course, now and then things linger. I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die.” source

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