The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar WildeFor his mourners will be outcast men
And outcasts always mourn...
Tags: oscar-wilde
And now, let us go out on the terrace where 'droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,' while the evening star 'washes the dusk with silver.' At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar WildeAs the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
Oscar WildeI know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.
Oscar WildeЕсли человек о чем-то здраво судит - это верный знак того, что сам он в этой области недееспособен.
Oscar WildeTags: thoughts
You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar WildeHow pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
Oscar WildeTags: sadness princess mirror rose
Gli uomini bramano sempre di essere il primo amore della donna; è questo un effetto della loro sciocca vanità. Le donne hanno un istinto più sottile. Esse desiderano essere l'ultimo romanzo dell'uomo.
Oscar WildeNon vi è altro modo di liberarsi da una tentazione che di soccombere ad essa. Se resistete, l'anima vostra si ammalerà di desiderio per quelle cose che le sono state rifiutate.
Oscar WildeTags: tentazioni
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