Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
OSCAR WILDEDeath 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.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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