Oscar Wilde Quotes, Passion Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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True friends stab you in the front.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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