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#1

“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
― Jean Genet

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#2

“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

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#3

“Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!”
― Jean Genet, Querelle of Brest

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#4

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

tags: truth

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#5

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

tags: writing

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#6

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― Andre Gide

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#7

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

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#8

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”
― André Gide

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#9

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”
― André Gide

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#10

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

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#14

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

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#15

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

tags: saint-sinner

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#16

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#17

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#18

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#19

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion

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#20

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

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#21

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

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#22

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

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#23

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

tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults

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#24

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: morality, philosophy

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#25

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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#26

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance

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#27

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

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#28

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

tags: birthday

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#29

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
― Ovid

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#30

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
― Ovid

tags: love, poetry, words

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