"One's only real life is the life..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
“The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.”
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“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”
“The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.”
“Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?”
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“Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !”
“To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.”
“When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.”