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""The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means" "
— Oscar Wilde

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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,998 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,451 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,511 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,316 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
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"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
569 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
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"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: books, humor
509 people liked it

"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

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
546 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast, brilliant, insults
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"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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"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
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"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
— Oscar Wilde

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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
— Voltaire

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
— Voltaire

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"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers"
— Voltaire

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"Common sense is not so common."
— Voltaire

tags: common, sense
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"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities."
— Voltaire

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"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
— Voltaire

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"How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me."
— W.H. Auden

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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."
— Leo Buscaglia

tags: inspirational
24 people liked it

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have one before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
— Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces)

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"Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life."
— Leo Buscaglia

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"We must love one another or die"
— W.H. Auden

tags: love
1 person liked it

"When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored."
— Eric Hoffer

tags: boredom
6 people liked it

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
— Eric Hoffer

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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."
— Eric Hoffer

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"What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds."
— Eric Hoffer

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"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."
— Eric Hoffer

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"It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. "
— Eric Hoffer

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"Jacob: "May the best MAN win."
Edward: "Sounds about right, pup!""
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: love
458 people liked it

"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, is it not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end?"
— Stephenie Meyer

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"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

1,940 people liked it

"Forbidden to Remember. Terrified to Forget."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: memory
1,084 people liked it

"I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: alice, angela, bella, cullen, eclispe, edward, jacob, twilight, vampire, werewolf
608 people liked it

"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
— Charlaine Harris

tags: books, vacation
333 people liked it

"You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

tags: eric-northman, humor, romance, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood
146 people liked it

"As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

tags: sookie-eric
27 people liked it

"I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

14 people liked it

"I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World)

tags: eric, sookie
15 people liked it

""Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror.
"Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?"
"Don't you wish you knew?"
"Yes," he said simply.
"Well, you'll just have to wonder."
"I am," he said. "Blond everywhere,"
"I could tell as much from your chest hair."
He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

21 people liked it

"Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.
I'd finally found something Eric did poorly."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

tags: cleaning, humor, vampires
76 people liked it

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