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Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild...more

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, on...more

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you ...more

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.""Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear me...more

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Most people are boring and stupid.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easil...more

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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

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People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are ch...more

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curi...more

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.