Oscar Wilde Quotes, Life Quotes, Years Quotes

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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