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Quote from Oscar Wilde,


"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine."


By:

Oscar Wilde (more quotes by Oscar Wilde or books by/about Oscar Wilde)


(1854-1900) Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, writer

Source:

The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1891

Categories:

Art, Individualism, Oppression, Slavery, Tyranny

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