"All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins."

Ovid on security   

"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."

Ovid on time
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"Time is the devourer of all things."

Ovid on time   

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

Ovid on courage   

"The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen."

Ally, Carl on creativity
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

Artaud, Antonin on creativity
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox."

Joshi, Kedar on paradox
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on art
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"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."

Bradley, Francis H. on aphorisms and epigrams   

"An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself."

Antrim, Minna on aphorisms and epigrams
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Tagore, Rabindranath on time
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"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them."

Wilde, Oscar on paradox
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Wilde, Oscar on painters and painting   

"The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art."

Wilde, Oscar on obscenity   

"Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk."

Wilde, Oscar on music
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"What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"

Wilde, Oscar on mind
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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

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

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."

Wilde, Oscar on individuality
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."

Wilde, Oscar on ideals and idealism
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"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on pessimism
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"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."

Wilde, Oscar on philanthropists   

"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."

Homer on friends and friendship
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading at all."

Wilde, Oscar on reading
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Wilde, Oscar on
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"That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism   

"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

Wilde, Oscar on confession
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"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."

Wilde, Oscar on ugliness
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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."

Wilde, Oscar on books - reading
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"Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you."

Wilde, Oscar on speakers and speaking   

"The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."

Wilde, Oscar on slavery