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Point Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is…
- What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
- All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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