Oscar Wilde Quotes, Dream Quotes, Pain Quotes

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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