Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Unique Quotes

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

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As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

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Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

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A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

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My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.

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A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

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Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.

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Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

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Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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