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#1

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#2

“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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#3

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

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

tags: humor-heaven

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#5

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

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#6

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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#7

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#8

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

tags: agree

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#9

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#10

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: america

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#11

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

tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom

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#12

“Life is too short to learn German”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#14

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, love, marriage

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#15

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

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#16

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

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#17

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#18

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#19

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: devil, hell, world

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#20

“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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#21

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

tags: epigram, humor, men, women

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#22

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed-no-source

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#23

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#24

“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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#25

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: life-surrealistic

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#26

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, humour

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#27

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

tags: morality, philosophy

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#28

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

tags: education, fashion

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#29

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#30

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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