To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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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 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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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