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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

Oscar Wilde

Variant: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

Oscar Wilde

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

Oscar Wilde

This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
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“Only love can keep anyone alive…”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance