Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Soul Quotes

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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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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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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America is one long expectoration.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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