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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, painting
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor, seriousness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “What of Art?
    -It is a malady.
    --Love?
    -An Illusion.
    --Religion?
    -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    --You are a sceptic.
    -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    --What are you?
    -To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
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    S.E. Hinton
    “They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, humanity, sadness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: marriage
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    Oscar Wilde
    “All art is quite useless.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: dance, dancing, music
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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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