Oscar Wilde Quotes, Life Quotes, Sympathy Quotes

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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