Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Pain Quotes

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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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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