I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate 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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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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To define is to limit.
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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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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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