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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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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty
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Oscar Wilde
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. – Oscar Wilde

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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

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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. – Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929

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To me, if life boils down to one thing, its movement. To live is to keep moving. – Jerry Seinfeld

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I dont have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. – Michael Landon

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