I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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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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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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