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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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Human life—that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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I was disappointed with Niagara—most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest disappointments in American married life.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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Nature is no great mother who has borne us. She is our creation. It is our brain that she quickens to life. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us.
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GILBERT: No ignoble consideration of probability, that cowardly concession to the tedious repetitions of domestic or public life, effect it ever.
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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
October 16, 1854
Died:
November 30, 1900
(aged 46)
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