Oscar Wilde Quotes, Dream Quotes, Lying Quotes

Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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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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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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