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“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#4

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#6

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#7

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults

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#8

“Every woman is a rebel.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: women-rebel

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#9

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: america

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#10

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

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#11

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#12

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-work

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#14

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#15

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks

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#16

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

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#17

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#18

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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#19

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

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#21

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#22

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“Nowadays 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.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom

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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#25

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#28

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

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#29

“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#30

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: woman-s-charm

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