Posted by: Stefano Gandolfi
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
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: Francesca Nacca
A mask tells us more than a face.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
A sense of duty is like some horrible disease. It destroys the tissues of the mind, as certain complaints destroy the tissues of the body. The catechism has a great deal to answer for.
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Posted by: Cheope
Passion is the natural climax of friendship.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
from the book "Perugina Baci" by Baci Perugina
Posted by: VikyPunx
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Stefania
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Deny
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They are but blank cheques.
Written on wednesday may 26, 2010
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Bad artists always admire each others work.
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