To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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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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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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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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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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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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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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