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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“He shone so bright, the sun could have borrowed light from him.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“Self-reflection becomes self-torment when learning doesn't occur.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“My mom would go crazy.
I can’t read all these sex poems. We’re Christian.”
― Daisy Fried

“If I don’t get a job,
it’s Wharton mba. Or teach English in Japan.”
― Daisy Fried

“Everything else than sea is a torment to a fish”
― Rumi

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― 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

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

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

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.”
― Kahlil Gibran