Oscar Wilde Quotes, Flower Quotes, Mirrors Quotes

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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