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“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― 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

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

“I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.”
― Emma - Blue Is the Warmest Color

“Раят
е винаги другаде
в рая
са винаги другите
другаде
раят е другаде
друг
ад
е”
― Георги Господинов, Балади и разпади

“За щастие нещата, които ме занимават, нямат тегло.
Миналото, тъгата и литературата - само тези три безтегловни кита ме интересуват.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
― Anton Chekhov