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I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completelyβ€”or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!
β€” Oscar Wilde
Tags: life, individuality, crowd, choices

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
β€” Oscar Wilde
Tags: about, than, being, only, life
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
β€” Oscar Wilde
Tags: life, goals, artistic
Everything popular is wrong.
β€” Oscar Wilde
Tags: everything, wrong
There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
β€” Oscar Wilde
Tags: relationships, love, romance
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
β€” Oscar Wilde
Tags: misattributed-oscar-wilde, inspirational, honesty, be-yourself, attributed-no-source
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