To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
OSCAR WILDEWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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