Sargent's Atlas and the Hesperides

Friday, January 18, 2013

Wilde Sentiments

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability"


"I don’t play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."


"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."


"Would you be in any way offended if I said you seem to me to be in every way the visual personification of absolute perfection."


"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."


"I don't want to go to heaven, none of my friends are there."


"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future." 


"Man is at least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."


“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

- Oscar Wilde

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