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.
OSCAR WILDEYou 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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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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