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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. (Oscar Wilde)
When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? View quote
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She lives the poetry she cannot write. View quote
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. View quote
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. View quote
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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl... I have ever met since... I met you. View quote
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me. View quote
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. View quote
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The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. View quote
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Truth is independent of facts always. View quote
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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. (Oscar Wilde)
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true. View quote
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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day. View quote
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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. View quote
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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die. View quote
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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it. View quote
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The moon in her chariot of pearl. View quote
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. View quote
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. View quote
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Love is easily killed. View quote
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. (Oscar Wilde)
You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me. View quote
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. View quote
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous. View quote
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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone. View quote
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Oscar Wilde

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Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: October 16, 1854
Died: November 30, 1900
Quotes count: 1197
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