An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at 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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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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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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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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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To define is to limit.
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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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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 nothing to declare except my genius.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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