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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“Hearts are made to be broken.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
“To define is to limit.”
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”