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Quote by Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pai

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Oscar Wilde
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. – Camille Paglia

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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. – Michelangelo

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A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. – Diane Kruger

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Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly. – James De La Vega

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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. – Tom T. Hall

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Im not afraid of death. – Maurice Sendak

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