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

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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

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

“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

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

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

“کسانی هستند که از بیست سالگی شروع به جان کندن می کنند.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“آنچه زندگانی را زهرآلود می کند جنگ برای زندگی نیست، بلکه کشمکش سر چیزهای پوچ و بیهوده است.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“از زمانیکه همه روابط خودم را با دیگران بریده ام، می خواهم خودم را بهتر بشناسم.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“گاهی خنده بیخ گلویم را میگیرد، آخرش هیچکس نفهمید درد من چیست، همه گول خوردند.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

“برای من بزرگترین معجزه همین است که وجود دارم.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“خودکشی وقتی است که هیچ راهی برای اشتراک معنوی با همنوعان در کار نیست.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“این هوشی که به آن می نازیم و در هر ساعت به آن تفاخر می کنیم، در هر دقیقه ما را گول می زند.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“ستمگری و کشتار نسبت به حیوانات، دشنام و ناسزا به شرافت و مقام انسانیت است.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

“اگر کسی تمدن می خواهد باید وحشیگری و بی شرفی ها را فراموش کند.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat