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

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“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“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

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#4

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love

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#5

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

tags: inspirational

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#6

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#8

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

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#9

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

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#10

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

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#11

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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#12

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#14

“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

tags: books, reading

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#15

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

tags: books, reading

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#16

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#17

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

tags: education, fashion

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#18

“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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#19

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

tags: humor-heaven

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#20

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

tags: friends-betrayal

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#21

“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

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#22

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

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#23

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#24

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#25

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#26

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

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#27

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love

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#28

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion

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#29

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

tags: love, romance

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#30

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

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#31

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

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