There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1