I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Live! 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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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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