It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDENothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Every woman is a rebel.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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