Quote by Oscar Wilde
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde

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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox. – Kedar Joshi

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