When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in eternity, but we move slowly through time; and how slowly time goes with us who lie in prison I need not tell again, nor of the weariness and despair that creep back into one's cell, and into the cell of one's heart, with such strange insistence that one has, as it were, to garnish and sweep one's house for their coming, as for an unwelcome guest, or a bitter master, or a slave whose slave it is one's chance or choice to be.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: choice philosophy
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: humor-friends
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
Oscar WildeA man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar WildeI love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: drinking
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being
Oscar WildeOrdinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
Oscar WildeImagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: life
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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