In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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.

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

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.