Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDESelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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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.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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