Oscar Wilde Quotes

“The artist must live the complete life, must accept it as it comes and stands like an angel before him, with its drawn and two-edged sword.… I have had great success, I have had great failure. I have learned the value of each; and I now know that failure means more—always must mean more than success. Why, then, should I complain? … I have at last come to the complete life which every artist must experience in order to join beauty to truth. —OSCAR WILDE, in conversation with Laurence Housman, September 1899”
― Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years