"For life is terribly deficient in form...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
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“The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.”
“I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.”
“The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.”
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“A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!”
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.”