I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDESelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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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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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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