Oscar Wilde Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Inferiority Quotes

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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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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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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