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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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.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except...

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except...

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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,...

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you....

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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you....

Talk to a woman as if you loved her and to a man as if...

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her and to a man as if...

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...

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...

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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...

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.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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...

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm...

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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm...

We read to know that we are not alone.

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We read to know that we are not alone.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.