Posted by: Stefania
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
Behind lives sublime, there is always something tragic. Large trials are needed because a tiny flower can flourish.
The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
Limitiation is suffering, enough is a consoloation, more than enough is a delightful banquet.
Death is the only thing I fear. I detest if for nowadays it is the only thing you can't survive. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.