The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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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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To define is to limit.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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