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#1

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: friendship-between-women

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#2

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

476 likes

#3

“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

20174 likes

#4

“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: actions

254 likes

#5

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11884 likes

#6

“The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
― McLandburgh Wilson

tags: perception, perspective

267 likes

#7

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
― Oscar Wilde

249 likes

#8

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

9945 likes

#9

“One should always be a little improbable.”
― Oscar Wilde

251 likes

#10

“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: denial

282 likes

#11

“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: clarity, honesty, oscar-wilde, words, writing

328 likes

#12

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
― Oscar Wilde

224 likes

#13

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

382 likes

#15

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
― Oscar Wilde

243 likes

#16

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

tags: friends-betrayal

10308 likes

#17

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: failure, inspirational, success

274 likes

#18

“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

290 likes

#19

“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

233 likes

#20

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: desire, humor

256 likes

#21

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: psychology

449 likes

#21

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: love, secrets

435 likes

#22

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: epistemology

288 likes

#23

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
― Oscar Wilde

255 likes

#24

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
― Oscar Wilde

234 likes

#25

“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain

1310 likes

#26

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

tags: imagination, life, money

9088 likes

#29

“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

tags: sin

10930 likes

#30

“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
― Kurt Cobain

692 likes

#31

“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: foreboding, foreshadowing

341 likes

#32

“I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't.”
― Kurt Cobain

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