Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
OSCAR WILDEWhen 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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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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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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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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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To define is to limit.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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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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