On Love:
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
On Life:
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Don’t tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
To become the spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection, to make one’s every dream a reality.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as ofte
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
The secret of life is in art.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.
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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.
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On Success:
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
On Optimism:
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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On Learning:
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
On Religion:
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
