If you pretend to be good the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad it doesn't.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Author: Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!