Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Mirrors Quotes

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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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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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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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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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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