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.
OSCAR WILDELive! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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