Oscar Wilde Quotes, Real Quotes, Night Quotes

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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