Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sad Quotes, Stars Quotes

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

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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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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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