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.
OSCAR WILDEIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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