To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
OSCAR WILDENowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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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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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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