To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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 have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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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 don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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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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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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