Oscar Wilde Quotes, Joy Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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