Oscar Wilde Quotes, Essence Quotes, Growth Quotes

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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