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“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.”— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold.”— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》
“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》
“He is to be pitied, to tell the truth, in his coming into the world as a king, for he is but a man--and having to waste himself on a pack of nonsense instead of sticking to our art, in which he makes good way.”— Alexandre Dumas《The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty》
“But nature itself, she thought, would be no better than a vast blank, if the mind of the observer did not supply it with an animating soul.”— William Godwin《Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman》
“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》
“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》
“And at last he got to the mines, and he was condemned to stay there for life--for life, just for writing a good, noble, splendid book.”— Edith Nesbit《The Railway Children》
“In any case such a monster must of necessity be in our scheme of things an anomaly and an intruder, whose extirpation forms a primary duty with every man not an enemy to the world's life, health, and sanity.”— H. P. Lovecraft《The Shunned House》
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”— J. Robert Oppenheimer《The Decision to Drop the Bomb interview》
“I thought of Scudder, of the thousand friends I had lost, of the great seas of blood and the mountains of sorrow this man and his like had made for the world.”— John Buchan《Mr. Standfast》
