The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Picture Quote by Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live...

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live...

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat...

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat...

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The heart was made to be broken.

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The heart was made to be broken.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will...

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will...

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his...

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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his...

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;...

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;...

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; other, whenever they go

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; other, whenever they go

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then...

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then...