Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Soul Quotes

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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Any place you love is the world to you.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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

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Authority is quite degrading.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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