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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."
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"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."
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"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
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"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
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"I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people."
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"In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic."
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"I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced."
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Explore more quotes by Oscar Wilde

"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
Art

"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Life

"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Society

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

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
Work

"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
Philosophy

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Force

"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
Society

"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
Art
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