Oscar Wilde Quotes, Race Quotes, Rejection Quotes

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

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One should always be a little improbable.

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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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