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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any
conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into
weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the
ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
