And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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.
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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...
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
You know I have loved him always.But we are very poor.Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.