The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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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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