Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDEYes: 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.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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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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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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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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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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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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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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