Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Passion Quotes

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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