Oscar Wilde Quotes, Live Your Life Quotes, Wish Quotes

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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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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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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