Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
OSCAR WILDEThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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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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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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