Oscar Wilde Quotes, Self Quotes, Harmony Quotes

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

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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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