Oscar Wilde Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Progress Quotes

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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The heart was made to be broken.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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