"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between ..."
- Oscar Wilde
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
"The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great po..."
"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."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions..."