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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Oscar Wilde
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Prism! Where is that baby?
Oscar Wilde -
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
Oscar Wilde -
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
Oscar Wilde -
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.
Oscar Wilde -
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Oscar Wilde
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
Oscar Wilde -
Truth is independent of facts always.
Oscar Wilde -
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Oscar Wilde -
No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
Oscar Wilde -
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
Oscar Wilde -
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde -
The sky was pure opal now.
Oscar Wilde -
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
Oscar Wilde -
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
Oscar Wilde -
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
Oscar Wilde -
Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
Oscar Wilde
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
Oscar Wilde -
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.
Oscar Wilde -
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
Oscar Wilde