Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"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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"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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"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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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about."
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"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."
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"Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship."
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"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
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"Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much."
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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
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"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them."
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."
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"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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"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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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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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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"He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him."
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"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
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"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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"If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any."
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