their way of falling.
The most decisive actions of our lifeâI mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our futureâare, more often than not, unconsidered.
My soul was born covered with wrinklesâwrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
The scholar seeks, the artist finds.
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Our judgments about things vary according to the time left us to liveâthat we think is left us to live.
To win oneâs joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marksâand especially admit of different interpretations.
IMAGE GALLERY
André Gide, 1893
Oscar Wilde, 1882
Billy Rose Theater Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Image of the Marquis of Queensberryâs visiting card, left for Oscar Wilde at the Albermarle Club, London, in 1895, and which precipitated Wildeâs lawsuit against him for criminal libel. Note it is marked as âExhibit Aâ in the trial.
OSCAR WILDE QUOTES
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Genius is bornânot paid.
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.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize oneâs nature perfectlyâthat is what each of us is here for.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyâll kill you.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Morality,
The most decisive actions of our lifeâI mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our futureâare, more often than not, unconsidered.
My soul was born covered with wrinklesâwrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
The scholar seeks, the artist finds.
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Our judgments about things vary according to the time left us to liveâthat we think is left us to live.
To win oneâs joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marksâand especially admit of different interpretations.
IMAGE GALLERY
André Gide, 1893
Oscar Wilde, 1882
Billy Rose Theater Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Image of the Marquis of Queensberryâs visiting card, left for Oscar Wilde at the Albermarle Club, London, in 1895, and which precipitated Wildeâs lawsuit against him for criminal libel. Note it is marked as âExhibit Aâ in the trial.
OSCAR WILDE QUOTES
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Genius is bornânot paid.
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.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize oneâs nature perfectlyâthat is what each of us is here for.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise theyâll kill you.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Morality,
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