"Life would be dull without them...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.”

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”

“Irony is wasted on the stupid”

“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”

“The aim of living is life itself.”

“To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.”

“I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.”

“To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.”

“It never got weird enough for me.”