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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde quote: "The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible?..."

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible? What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. . . . O, I am fortune’s fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars. William Shakespeare
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare. Friedrich Nietzsche
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Harriet Tubman
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. Washington Irving
There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And ifyou do, you can't be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don't, you never will again. Paul Auster
Chris Evans quote: "I am single and not looking to be in a relationship."
I am single and not looking to be in a relationship. Chris Evans
Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work. Kim Novak
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'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors. Spike Lee
Kate DiCamillo quote: "Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.He admired his own..."
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.He admired his own defiance.And then, reader, he fainted. Kate DiCamillo
The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _ la mode_. Henry David Thoreau
Bernardo Bertolucci quote: "I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those."
I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those. Bernardo Bertolucci
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I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. Bernard Manning
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. Chuck Palahniuk
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. Mother Teresa
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. Alan Watts