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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
– Oscar Wilde

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  1. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde
  2. America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. – Oscar Wilde
  3. Europe is made of history,America of philosophy,Asia of prosperity,and Africa of opportunity. – Sami Leino
  4. I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare. – Santosh Kalwar
  6. In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
  7. In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it’s an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
  8. In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters. – Philip Roth
  9. There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
  10. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It’s what made me who I am today. – JulieAnne
  12. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. – Oscar Wilde
  13. We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. – Oscar Wilde
  14. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free. – Shannon Wiersbitzky
  15. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  16. Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
  17. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
  18. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
  19. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
  20. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. – Oscar Wilde
  21. I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. – Oscar Wilde
  22. It is rarely in the world’s history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world. – Oscar Wilde
  23. The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. – Oscar Wilde
  24. The ages live in history through their anachronisms. – Oscar Wilde
  25. Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered. – Sunday Adelaja
  26. When I discovered music -” when I discovered the craft of shaping a song -” my being fell into place. – Charlotte Eriksson
  27. Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing. – Pasha Cook
  28. I don’t think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970’s. That’s when I discovered it anyway. – Craig Ferguson
  29. Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action. – Anas Nin
  30. It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. – Karl Weierstrass
  31. It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. – Edith Wharton
  32. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt
  33. But did he know that I’d already forgiven him for having rejected me? – Maryam Schonbeck
  34. If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn’t forgive her for being hurt. – Tana French
  35. The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. – Debasish Mridha
  36. Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right. – Oscar Wilde
  37. Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde
  38. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  39. How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver. – Oscar Wilde
  40. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. – Oscar Wilde

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