To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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