The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDELive! 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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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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