Oscar Wilde Quotes, Passion Quotes

I am happy in my prison of passion

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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