Avant garde

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Intentions

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Topic

Dreamers Avant garde

Speaker

Gilbert

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Critic as Artist Intentions

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Topic

Avant garde Early adopters

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Innocents Abroad

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 26.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 26.