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Oscar Wilde: Reading
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ”
English: Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde: Do not ask
Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The sick do not ask if the hand that smooths their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
Oscar Wilde: Hatred and love
“Hatred is blind, as well as love. ”
English: Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Friends, acquaintances and enemies
Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
—Oscar Wilde
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Love once
Oscar Wilde at Oxford (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
—Oscar Wilde
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Masking the truth
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
—Oscar Wilde
