We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
OSCAR WILDEThe nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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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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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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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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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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To define is to limit.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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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 nothing to declare except my genius.
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