Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
After a good dinner, you can forgive anybody. Even your relatives.
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After a good dinner, you can forgive anybody. Even your relatives.
Logic is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The supreme joy of being a father is understood by very few men; motherhood istead, by all women, even the most depraved.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.
What a blessing it is that there is one art left to us that is not imitative! Don't stop. I want music tonight. It seems to me that you are the young Apollo, and that I am Marsyas listening to you. I have sorrows, Dorian, of my own, that even you know nothing of. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. I am amazed sometimes at my own sincerity.
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My dear boy, you are really beginning to moralize. You will soon be going about like the converted, and the revivalist, warning people against all the sins of which you have grown tired. You are much too delightful to do that. Besides, it is no use. You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
A sense of duty is like some horrible disease. It destroys the tissues of the mind, as certain complaints destroy the tissues of the body. The catechism has a great deal to answer for.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.