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Samuel
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“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
―
Charles Bukowski
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#2
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
―
Pablo Picasso
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“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
―
Oscar Wilde
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#4
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
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#5
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
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Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
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charming
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good
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#7
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
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Oscar Wilde,
Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
tags:
epigram
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paradox
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truth
,
wisdom
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#8
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#9
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
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Oscar Wilde
tags:
america
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#10
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
tags:
optimism
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#11
“There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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#12
“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
―
Jean Luc Godard
tags:
film
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philosophy
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#13
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
―
Mark Twain
tags:
americans
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geography
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war
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#14
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
―
Mark Twain
tags:
humor-satan
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#15
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
―
Mark Twain
tags:
education
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#16
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
―
Mark Twain,
The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
tags:
love
,
marriage
,
women
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