Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mirrors Quotes, Rejection Quotes

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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