There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
OSCAR WILDEArt is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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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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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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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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Every woman is a rebel.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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