"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."

Wilde, Oscar on ethics
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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"The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion."

Wilde, Oscar on events
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on faults
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are."

Wilde, Oscar on the future
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result."

Wilde, Oscar on nature
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"One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

Wilde, Oscar on hunting   

"And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -- shall be full to running over."

Cayce, Edgar on expectation   

"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

Wonder, Stevie on expectation   

"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."

Chesterfield, Lord on indolence   

"The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed."

Kierkegaard, Søren on indolence
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

Angelou, Maya on isolation
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"

Williams, Tennessee on isolation
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"Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone."

Arnim, Mary on beauty
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"All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty."

Baudelaire, Charles on beauty
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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

Bernstein, Al on beauty
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"The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on beauty
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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

Camus, Albert on beauty
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"It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty."

Eliot, George on beauty
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"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty
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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."

Gracian, Baltasar on beauty
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"The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy."

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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

Hughes, Langston on beauty
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"Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first."

Klee, Paul on beauty
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"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us."

Pascal, Blaise on beauty
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"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on beauty
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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"

Alcott, Louisa May on mothers
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Beecher, Henry Ward on mothers
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"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

Duras, Marguerite on mothers
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