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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.»
«Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.»
«An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young»
«What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her»
«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.»
«Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance»
«Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree»
«Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.»
«Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.»
«I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.»