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.
OSCAR WILDEThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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 things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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