Oscar Wilde Quotes, Drama Quotes, Genius Quotes

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Most people are other people.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

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