My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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The more you analize others, the more you lose every reason for analysis.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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There is something terribly ungenerous in other people's tragedies.
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Oh! I quite love dull and practical conversations. What I can't stand are dull and practical people. There is a great difference.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of
himself, can end sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them and dominate them.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
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I'm always pleased to know my relatives have been insulted. It is the only link I have with them. Relatives are simply a tedious bunch of people who haven't the slightest idea of how to live, or the slightest inckling for the right time to die.
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I can't aboid detesting my relatives. I suppose it derives from the fact that no one can stand our having someone else's flaws.
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