Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Two Quotes

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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