Quote by Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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State
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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Generations
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Life
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How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. – Khalil Gibran

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Life

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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Life

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

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Life

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Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. – Jaffar Hussein

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I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember. – Stephen Wallem

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In those days, it didnt take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. – Phil Harris

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My first three years of high school, I wasnt that cool. – Jonathan Bennett

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