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Oscar Wilde revived

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Originally posted by Ponderable
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

This is probably where "Harry and Sally" got its starting paradigm from...
Such a charming film - "When Harry Met Sally" - and that is precisely what the film is all about - when he meets her, she is few steps ahead of him... 🙂
At least that's what I think.

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." /Oscar Wilde

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It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Appropriate for the season I think.

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another seasonal:

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. - Oscar Wilde

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True friends stab you in the front.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Originally posted by hakima (OP)
On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde, I found it fitting to resurrect an old thread even if I had to re-create it...

What a pity that the first was permitted to be buried far too long...

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
--OW

Happy Birthday to the Big O...

;-)
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"Get up! Wake up! Seek the guidance of an
Illumined teacher and realize the Self.
Sharp like a razor's edge is the path,
The sages say, difficult to traverse.

--from the Katha Upanishad"

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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
OW

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
OW

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Aubrey Beardsley was one of Wilde's circle.

"Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing."

"I'm so affected, that even my lungs are affected."

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Some Wilde quotes from Salome:

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

"“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."

“I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, Iokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench my passion. I was a princess, and thou didst scorn me. I was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity from me. I was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire . . .”

“Gördüğümüz her şeyde simgeler bulmak akıllıca değil. Hayatı imkânsız kılar bu.”

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“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance."
- Mrs. Allonby to Lady Stutfield from "A Woman of No Importance"

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"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."

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Originally posted by Suzianne
"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
Not OW, but I think he would have nodded sagely:

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain