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“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Mais il faut bien dire qu'il y a quelque chose de plus important encore que le temps qu'on emploie au travail, c'est l'application qu'on y apporte; ce n'est pas l'heure que nous passons sur notre leçon qui met cette leçon dans notre mémoire, c'est la volonté d'apprendre.”
― Hector Malot, Nobody's Boy

“Ah! Cât de sărac este graiul buzelor față de cel al ochilor. Cât de reci și goale sunt cuvintele în comparație co ochii!”
― Hector Malot, Nobody's Boy

“Mais il y a des moments où le cœur voit mieux et plus loin que les yeux les plus perçants”
― Hector Malot, Sans Famille

“Hunger is not an excuse for taking what does not belong to us.”
― Hector Malot, En Famille

“Câinele este întotdeauna oglinda stăpânului său şi cine se uită la unul, îl vede pe celălalt. Arată-mi câinele tău pentru a-ţi spune cine eşti . Ticălosul are drept câine un netrebnic. Hoţul, un hoţ. Ţăranul prost un câine grosolan. Omul politicos şi amabil un câine binecrescut.”
― Hector Malot, Singur pe lume

“Când ai ochi să priveşti şi pe ei îţi pui ochelarii pe care ţi-i dau cărţile , sfârşeşti prin a vedea lucrurile aşa cum sunt ele cu adevărat.”
― Hector Malot, Singur pe lume

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Punctuation, is? fun!”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon