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Quote by Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. – Oscar Wilde

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Pray dont talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. – Oscar Wilde

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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali

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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck

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