It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDEEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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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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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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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 never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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