There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. 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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Hearts are made to be broken.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I can resist anything except temptation.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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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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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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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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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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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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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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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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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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