The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
The very essence of love is uncertainty.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
I am not young enough to know everything.