One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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 think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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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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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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To define is to limit.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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