The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDEHumanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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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 public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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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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