Oscar Wilde Quotes, Swings Quotes, Cells Quotes

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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I never change, except in my affections.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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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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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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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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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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