A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
Tags: indulgence-crime
I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!
Oscar WildeTags: individuality life choices crowd
The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar WildeSometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel
Oscar WildeThey get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
Oscar WildeTags: lifestyle
The moon in her chariot of pearl
Oscar WildeTags: moon
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Oscar WildeTags: fugitive
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar WildeIt is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Oscar WildeTags: language
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
Oscar WildeTags: ethics
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