The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDETo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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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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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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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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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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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 man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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