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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world there are far more things forbidden to them.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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