Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
OSCAR WILDEWhen one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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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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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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