Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

-- Oscar Wilde

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. –

-- Oscar Wilde

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