No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Bad women tempt one. Good women bore one. That is the difference between them.
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals.
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Posted by: Donato Potenza
Lord Henry: All i want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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Death is the only thing I fear. I detest if for nowadays it is the only thing you can't survive. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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Limitiation is suffering, enough is a consoloation, more than enough is a delightful banquet.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Luisa Marcangeli
Duty is what one expects from others.
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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
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Women are a decorative sex -- they have nothing to say, but they say it charmingly.
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Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, as in love, in the artist, it's simply the sense of beauty that manifests to the world his body and soul.
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