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#1

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: fate, history

1852 likes

#2

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: woman-s-charm

657 likes

#3

“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: women

244 likes

#4

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

tags: body, clothing, greeks, soul

107 likes

#5

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

tags: depression, emotions, feelings, judith-guest, life, ordinary-people, smile

160 likes

#6

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

3791 likes

#7

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

1163 likes

#8

“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.”
― Sartre, The Wall

90 likes

#9

“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

793 likes

#10

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

4233 likes

#11

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

1549 likes

#12

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

862 likes

#13

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

tags: perception

162 likes

#14

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism

736 likes

#15

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

454 likes

#16

“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

tags: le-petit-prince, life, love, wisdom

524 likes

#17

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, hope, philosophy

648 likes

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