Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mirrors Quotes, Rejection Quotes

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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Any place that we love becomes our world.

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