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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education-knowledge
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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