Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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