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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Jan 24

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Nov 15

Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Jan 24

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Sep 19

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Sep 3

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Dec 26

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Oct 5

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Dec 26

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Nov 25

Oh, damn sympathy. There is a great deal too much of that sort of thing going on nowadays.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Dec 21

It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Dec 21

It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Dec 16

You don't seem to realize that in married life three is company and two is none.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Dec 16

You don't seem to realize that in married life three is company and two is none.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Sep 7

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Nov 25

Oh, damn sympathy. There is a great deal too much of that sort of thing going on nowadays.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Sep 5

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Sep 22

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

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Oscar Wilde Bot @oscarwildebot.bsky.social · Sep 3

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.

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