Oscar Wilde Quotes
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
Olav Thon
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
Macy Gray
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
Kate Moss
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
Venus Williams
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I am hungry to be interrupted
For ever and ever amen
O Person from Porlock come quickly
And bring my thoughts to an end.
Stevie Smith
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie
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To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.
Erich Maria Remarque
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
Randolph Bourne
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
Pablo Neruda
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
