"Beauty has as many meanings as man..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”
“A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry”
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“When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you”
“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”
“The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream”
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“See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.”
“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”