Oscar Wilde Quotes, Swings Quotes, Cells Quotes

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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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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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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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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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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I am happy in my prison of passion

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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