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Title: ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:15:08 PM
Oscar Wilde Quotes

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An Irish writer and poet.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.

Here are some famous quotes by  Oscar Wilde.

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Who being loved is poor?
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:15:53 PM
All art is quite useless.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:16:20 PM
A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:16:48 PM
Alas I am dying beyond my means.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:17:15 PM
Only the shallow know themselves.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:17:49 PM
Punctuality is the thief of time.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:18:15 PM
True friends stab you in the front.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:18:40 PM
Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:19:06 PM
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:19:34 PM
Duty is what one expects from others.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:20:19 PM
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:20:43 PM
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:21:07 PM
I am not young enough to know everything.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:21:35 PM
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:22:02 PM
Men become old but they never become good.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:22:29 PM
I can resist everything except temptation.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:23:05 PM
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:23:34 PM
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:24:01 PM
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:24:27 PM
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:25:16 PM
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:25:40 PM
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:26:07 PM
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:26:35 PM
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:27:01 PM
Men know life too early women know life too late.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:27:27 PM
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:27:55 PM
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:28:23 PM
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:28:56 PM
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2015, 04:29:17 PM
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:06:46 PM
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:07:21 PM
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:07:50 PM
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:08:19 PM
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:08:44 PM
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:09:10 PM
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:09:34 PM
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:10:16 PM
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:10:41 PM
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:11:13 PM
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:11:57 PM
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:13:07 PM
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:13:57 PM
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:14:23 PM
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:14:47 PM
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:15:16 PM
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:15:48 PM
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:16:39 PM
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:17:06 PM
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:17:35 PM
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:18:16 PM
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:18:47 PM
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:19:13 PM
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:19:44 PM
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:20:12 PM
It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:20:37 PM
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:21:21 PM
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:21:45 PM
He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:22:09 PM
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2015, 10:22:30 PM
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:22:27 AM
More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:23:05 AM
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:23:37 AM
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:24:08 AM
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:25:09 AM
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:25:39 AM
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:28:25 AM
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:28:52 AM
To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:29:19 AM
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:29:49 AM
No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:30:46 AM
Success is a science; if you have the conditions you get the result.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:31:15 AM
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:31:45 AM
To give and not expect return that is what lies at the heart of love.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:32:12 AM
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:32:39 AM
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:33:04 AM
I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:33:34 AM
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:34:00 AM
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:34:29 AM
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:34:58 AM
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:35:40 AM
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:36:12 AM
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:36:42 AM
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 10:37:12 AM
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 11:18:31 AM
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 11:19:39 AM
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 11:21:20 AM
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 11:26:22 AM
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:29:19 PM
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:29:47 PM
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except of course language.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:38:29 PM
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:39:00 PM
At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:39:32 PM
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:40:01 PM
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:40:28 PM
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:40:54 PM
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:41:23 PM
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:41:49 PM
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:42:16 PM
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:42:44 PM
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:43:35 PM
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:44:01 PM
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:44:33 PM
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:45:03 PM
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:45:27 PM
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:45:53 PM
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:46:24 PM
Ultimately the bond of all companionship wheather in marriage or in friendship is conversation.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:46:56 PM
To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:47:39 PM
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2015, 05:48:19 PM
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love and where there is no love there is no understanding.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:02:34 AM
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:03:18 AM
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better they don't know anything at all.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:03:44 AM
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:04:11 AM
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:04:43 AM
Perhaps after all America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:05:12 AM
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:05:37 AM
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich and that is the poor.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:06:04 AM
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:06:31 AM
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:07:00 AM
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:07:32 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:07:59 AM
Lots of people act well but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:08:39 AM
The intellect is not a serious thing and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays that is all.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:09:06 AM
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:09:34 AM
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:10:00 AM
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:10:34 AM
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:11:03 AM
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:11:36 AM
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:12:04 AM
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:12:58 AM
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:13:27 AM
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions their lives a mimicry their passions a quotation.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:14:03 AM
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:15:00 AM
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:15:30 AM
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:16:04 AM
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:16:43 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:17:11 AM
When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:17:41 AM
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:18:16 AM
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:18:58 AM
The typewriting machine when played with expression is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:19:32 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:20:02 AM
My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:20:38 AM
I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:21:14 AM
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:21:42 AM
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:22:13 AM
A man's very highest moment is I have no doubt at all when he kneels in the dust and beats his breast and tells all the sins of his life.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:22:48 AM
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:23:15 AM
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:23:45 AM
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:24:40 AM
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:25:15 AM
There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:25:44 AM
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:26:13 AM
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:26:48 AM
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:27:16 AM
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop all monsters and dust with everything priced above its proper value.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:27:42 AM
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:28:11 AM
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:28:41 AM
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:29:15 AM
I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:30:07 AM
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:30:39 AM
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:31:05 AM
Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:31:35 AM
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2015, 10:32:00 AM
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence their absolute incoherence their absurd want of meaning their entire lack of style.