Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEHearts are made to be broken.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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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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