The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

Oscar Wilde

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No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Oscar Wilde

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Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feelings, the actor’s craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectators, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

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When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.

Oscar Wilde

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Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

Oscar Wilde

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servants' part of the house, the half-clad domestics were talking in low whispers to each other. Old Mrs. Leaf was crying and wringing her hands. Francis was as pale as death. After about a quarter of an hour, he got the coachman and one of the footmen and crept upstairs. They knocked, but there was no reply. They called out. Everything was still. Finally, after vainly trying to force the door, they got on the roof and dropped down on to the balcony. The windows yielded easily--their bolts

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As perguntas não são nunca indiscretas. As respostas às vezes são.

Oscar Wilde

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Sacrifício é uma coisa que devia ser proibida por lei. É tão desmoralizador para as pessoas por quem é feito!

Oscar Wilde

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Todo impulso que empenhamos em sufocar incuba no nosso espírito e nos envenena. Peque o corpo uma vez e estará livre do pecado, porque a ação tem um dom purificador. Nada restará então, salvo a lembrança de um prazer, ou a volúpia de um arrependimento. A única maneira de se livrar de uma tentação é ceder a ela. Se resistimos, nossa alma adoecerá de desejo do que proibimos a nós mesmos, do que as suas leis monstruosas tornaram monstruoso e ilegítimo. Tem-se dito que os grandes acontecimentos do mundo ocorrem no cérebro. Também é no cérebro, e só nele, que ocorrem os grandes pecados do mundo.

Oscar Wilde

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Certas criaturas têm a mania de dar bons conselhos, precisando tanto deles para si... É o que chamo o cúmulo da generosidade.

Oscar Wilde

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