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#1

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

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#3

“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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#4

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

tags: truth

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#5

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

tags: education, fashion

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#6

“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

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#7

“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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#8

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

tags: saint-sinner

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#9

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

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#10

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#11

“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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#12

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#13

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#14

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious

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#15

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

tags: love, romance

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#16

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#17

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

tags: salome

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#18

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram

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#19

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: attributed-no-source, courage

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#20

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: adoration, love, poetry

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#21

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

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#22

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
― e.e. cummings

tags: inspirational

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#23

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: snow

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#24

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: self-acceptance, self-confidence

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#25

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: pretties

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#26

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
― Jacques Deval

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#27

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#28

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

tags: love

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#29

“Love is a better master than duty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: love

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#30

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: wish

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#31

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

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