Oscar Wilde Quotes, Pessimism Quotes

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

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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

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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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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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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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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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