Published before 06/01/2004
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert ourselves.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Silvia Menato
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Until now I ignored what terror was: now I know. It is as if a frozen hand settled on your heart. It's as if the heart leapt, to the point of crashing, in an empty abiss.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Evil isn't growing old on the exterior, but not reamining young within.
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Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us. And yet, I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream-I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. 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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
If you really love a woman, all the others are insignificant.
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Posted by: Ludovica Marinucci
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
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Posted by: mario 71
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If you've found an answer to all your questions, it signifies your questions were wrong.
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