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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Oscar Wilde

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Beautiful Death Earth Forgiveness Life Lying Peace Silence
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Freedom Life Live Selfish
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Hope Suspense Terrible
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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Age Secret Trust Woman
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Book Moral Reading Shame World
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Future Humour Men Past Women
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Power Reality Sex World
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Deceive Love Onself Romance
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Book Care Reading Writing
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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Face Fiction Man Struggle Woman
I can resist anything except temptation.
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Healing One Liner Temptation Wisdom
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Intelligence One Liner Service Wit Writing
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Forgiveness Genius Intelligence People Tolerance Wonderful
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Man Price Selfish Value
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Devil Hell Human Nature Mask World
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Character Identity Mimicry Opinion Passion People

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