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 WILDEEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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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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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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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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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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