The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDEBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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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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To define is to limit.
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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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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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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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