Oscar Wilde Quotes, Memories Quotes, Passion Quotes

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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