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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Like Aphrodite, she demanded exaltation and idolatry.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful? As I walk through the night, I remember what Mitsutsuka said to me. “Because at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“When I start to feel emotional about something, I can't tell if I'm actually feeling that way. What if it's just something somebody wrote in a book? Or maybe a line or a performance from some movie... Either way, I get this feeling like I'm quoting somebody else's work.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Now that the light was gone, I closed my eyes softly, knowing it would only be a short time until the light came back in the morning.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

“I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I want to place her on a pedestal of gold, and to see the world worship the woman who is mine.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is some Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought.”
― W.B. Yeats