Oscar Wilde Quotes, Pessimism Quotes

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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

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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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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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