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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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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To define is to limit.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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