Oscar Wilde Quotes, Kings Quotes, Loss Quotes

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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