I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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