Oscar Wilde Quotes, Country Quotes, Art Quotes

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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Most people are other people.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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