Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEThe mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Humanity 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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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