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Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

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

Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde photo

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”

Variant: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Source: An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde photo

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Variant: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

Lord Darlington, Act I
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Oscar Wilde photo

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Dylan Thomas photo

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Source: In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

Jorge Luis Borges photo

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

"The Threatened", The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)

Roald Dahl photo

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
Marilyn Monroe photo

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.