The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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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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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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.
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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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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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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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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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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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