Oscar Wilde Quotes About Perfection
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.
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