Oscar Wilde Quotes, Believe Quotes, Past Quotes

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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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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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

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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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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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