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  • #151
    Oscar Wilde
    “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: children, humor, paraphrased, parents
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  • #152
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: agree
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  • #153
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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  • #154
    Oscar Wilde
    “If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #155
    Oscar Wilde
    “The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-suspense
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  • #156
    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #157
    Oscar Wilde
    “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: america
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  • #158
    Oscar Wilde
    “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram, humor, men, women
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  • #159
    Oscar Wilde
    “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #160
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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  • #161
    Oscar Wilde
    “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-work
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  • #162
    Oscar Wilde
    “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humorous
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  • #163
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-roles, suffrage, womens-rights
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  • #164
    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
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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  • #165
    Oscar Wilde
    “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age, discretion, secret, trust, truth, woman
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  • #166
    Oscar Wilde
    “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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  • #167
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
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  • #168
    Oscar Wilde
    “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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  • #169
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, humanity, sadness
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  • #170
    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
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  • #171
    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper
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  • #172
    Oscar Wilde
    “What of Art?
    -It is a malady.
    --Love?
    -An Illusion.
    --Religion?
    -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    --You are a sceptic.
    -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    --What are you?
    -To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  • #173
    Oscar Wilde
    “The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Salomé
    tags: salome
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  • #174
    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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  • #175
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #176
    Oscar Wilde
    “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: marriage
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  • #177
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: procrastination
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  • #178
    Oscar Wilde
    “Only the shallow know themselves”
    ― oscar wilde
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  • #179
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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  • #180
    Nicole Krauss
    “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
    9262 likes



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