Ocupation: Writer
Life: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
Birthday: October 16
Death: November 30
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
source: Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions
topic: Real, Passion, Self, Wild Passion, Real Christianity