Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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To define is to limit.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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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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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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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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