Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sad Quotes, Taken Quotes

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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

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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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