"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion."

Wilde, Oscar on innocence
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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on intelligence and intellectuals
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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

Wilde, Oscar on appearance
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."

Wilde, Oscar on maturity
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"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on love   

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

Bankhead, Tallulah on uniqueness
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"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."

Picasso, Pablo on censorship
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."

Wilde, Oscar on theater
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

Nabokov, Vladimir on imagination   

"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis
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"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

Huxley, Aldous on drugs
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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Proust, Marcel on memory   

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

Dali, Salvador on drugs
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Wilde, Oscar on modern and modernism
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"Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis   

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."

Bankhead, Tallulah on neurosis
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

Thompson, Hunter S. on advice
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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

Adorno, Theodor W. on art
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."

Fromm, Erich on equality   

"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."

Fromm, Erich on materialism   

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."

Fromm, Erich on love   

"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on possessions
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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist."

Fromm, Erich on power   

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Fromm, Erich on weakness   

"By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts -- but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively."

Fromm, Erich on alienation
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"Acquisition means life to miserable mortals."

Hesiod on materialism   

"Oh, what a void there is in things."

Persius on materialism   

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly."

Russell, Bertrand on materialism   

"Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment."

Twain, Mark on materialism
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"When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation."

Updike, John on materialism