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  • #1
    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #2
    Vikram Seth
    “But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #3
    Vikram Seth
    “All you who sleep tonight
    Far from the ones you love,
    No hand to left or right,
    An emptiness above--

    Know that you aren't alone.
    The whole world shares your tears,
    Some for two nights or one,
    And some for all your years.”
    Vikram Seth

  • #4
    Vikram Seth
    “Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”
    Vikram Seth, An Equal Music

  • #5
    Vikram Seth
    “Man without life companion is either god or beast.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #6
    Vikram Seth
    “Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #7
    Vikram Seth
    “Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #8
    Vikram Seth
    “In life's brief game to be a winner
    A man must have...oh yes, above
    All else, of course, someone to love.”
    Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #11
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    oscar wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Who, being loved, is poor?”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
    Oscar Wilde



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