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

Picture Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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

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

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of...

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of...

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,...

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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...

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

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...

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...

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel...

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Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel...

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...

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you...

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you...

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

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Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a...

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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a...