Posted by: Carlo Sina
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. (from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
With love you can't go to market. It's its joy, like the joy of intellect, is feeling alive. The reason for love is loving: no more, no less.
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Posted by: Federico
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Behind lives sublime, there is always something tragic. Large trials are needed because a tiny flower can flourish.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Prometeo
It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
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Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
A tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind.
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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; [...] Such things were impossible. It seemed monstrous even to think of them.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
He sought to become eyes to the blind, ears to the deaf, and a cry in the lips of those whose lips had been sealed. His wish was that of being the trumpet through which the voiceless multitude could reach the sky.
from the book "" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Deny
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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