To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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