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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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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. – Walter Anderson

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. – Aristotle

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Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau

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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. – Josh Billings

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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. – Leon Kass

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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after hes dead, then maybe he was a great man. – James Dean

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. – Arabic Proverb

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