We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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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 no sin except stupidity.
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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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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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