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.
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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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When 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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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Yes: 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.
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