Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEExperience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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