A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Happiness   
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Subject:
Reality   
Truth   
Human Nature   
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Subject:
Ambition   
Life   
Opinions   
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Subject:
Religious   
Spiritual   
Inspirational   
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Subject:
Life   
Selfish   
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Relationship   
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Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Subject:
Education   
Children   
Books   
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
Subject:
Life   
Art   
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Sarcasm   
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Subject:
Happiness   
Humor   
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Ignorance   
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Relationship   
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Subject:
Marriage   
Men   
Women   
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Subject:
Science   
Emotions   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Subject:
Past   
Future   
Present   
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Subject:
Patriotism   
Virtue   
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Subject:
Art   
Understand   
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Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Subject:
Decisions   
Community   
Media   
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Subject:
Fear   
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