To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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