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    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
    “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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    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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “All art is quite useless.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: men-and-women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: human, life, value, worth
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  • #13
    Katie McGarry
    “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
    ― Katie McGarry, Take Me On
    tags: trouble
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  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    George Burns
    “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: family, happiness, humor
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  • #18
    Paul Simon
    “I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
    ― Simon and Garfunkel
    tags: happiness, life
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    Чудомир
    “Даже и най-скъпият часовник има само 60 минути в час”
    ― Чудомир
    tags: bg, bulgarian, wisdom, български, мъдрост
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    Norman Maclean
    “At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
    ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
    tags: people, philosophy, sunrise, thoughts
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  • #21
    Jeannette Walls
    “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: appreciation, earth, god, lord, religion, sunrise, world
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
    ― Somerset Maugham
    tags: books, meaning, somerset-maugham
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  • #23
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
    tags: first-kiss, kissing
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  • #25
    Aldous Huxley
    “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: passion
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: love, passion, romance
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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
    tags: passion
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  • #28
    Richard Kadrey
    “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
    tags: bullets, memories, metaphor, pain
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  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: harry-potter
    452 likes



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