Posted by: Ludovica Marinucci
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
After a good dinner, you can forgive anybody. Even your relatives.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Logic is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
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Posted by: Ale2191 Cesura
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The supreme joy of being a father is understood by very few men; motherhood istead, by all women, even the most depraved.
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Posted by: Stefano Gandolfi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
What a blessing it is that there is one art left to us that is not imitative! Don't stop. I want music tonight. It seems to me that you are the young Apollo, and that I am Marsyas listening to you. I have sorrows, Dorian, of my own, that even you know nothing of. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. I am amazed sometimes at my own sincerity.
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My dear boy, you are really beginning to moralize. You will soon be going about like the converted, and the revivalist, warning people against all the sins of which you have grown tired. You are much too delightful to do that. Besides, it is no use. You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Rex Akragas
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
from the book "" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: superelenuzza5
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde