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“Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways why which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I never talk during music--at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c’est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“Tu sais… quand on est tellement triste on aime les couchers de soleil…

-Le jour des quarante-trois fois tu étais donc tellement triste? Mais le petit prince ne répontit pas.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Les grandes personnes sont bien étranges”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“Il est bien plus difficile de se juger soi-même que de juger autrui”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“Ce n'était qu'un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j'en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Porque la única razón de ser viejo es empezar a vivir tarde”
― Harper Lee, Matar a un ruiseñor

“La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno.”
― Harper Lee, Matar a un ruiseñor

“No señor, miedo de tener que enfrentarme a lo que no hice”
― Harper Lee, Matar a un ruiseñor

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“J'ai eu un moment l'impression ridicule qu'ils étaient là pour me juger”
― Albert Camus, L'étranger

“De toute façon, on est toujours un peu fautif”
― Albert Camus, L'étranger