Oscar Wilde Quotes, Real Quotes, Passion Quotes

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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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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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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One should always be in love.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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