Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDEYes: 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.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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