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«When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.»
«When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Deceit,
Romance,
Self awareness
| Keywords:
always, And One, begins, be all and end all, calls, call at, call out, call up, deceiving, ends, end on, in love, One World, others, romance, romances, romancing, self, that is, The Calling, The Loved One, world
«To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.»
«Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
All in one, for each one, have, insult, is, never, one, one after another, One and one, One on One, one to one, popularity, suffered, The, The One, The One and Only
«To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Self involvement,
Suffering
| Keywords:
escape, spectator, suffering, The Suffering
«An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.»
«Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Reality,
Self awareness,
Truth
| Keywords:
all told, at the least, give, given any, give out, him, His, least, man, manned, mans, mask, masked, masking, of her own, on her own, own, person, talks, Talk to Her, Tell, tell on, their talk, The Telling, The Truth, this talk, truth, truth telling, when, will
«Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
beginning, faith, scepticism, The Beginning
«We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
and the, at best, best, Better Than Life, experience, great, often, oftenest, possible, reproduce, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, secret
«The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.»
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