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  • #1
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #2
    Kinky Friedman
    “My dear,
    Find what you love and let it kill you.
    Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
    Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
    For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
    ~ Falsely yours”
    Kinky Friedman

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #8
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #9
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is a luxury in self-reproach. 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

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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