The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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To define is to limit.
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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 don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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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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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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