Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
OSCAR WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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To define is to limit.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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