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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
— Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Tags: women, sarcasm, paradise, humor, eve, escape, american-women

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
— 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.
— Oscar Wilde
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Everything popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
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There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: relationships, love, romance
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde
Tags: misattributed-oscar-wilde, inspirational, honesty, be-yourself, attributed-no-source
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