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  • #1
    Gary Snyder
    “Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
    Gary Snyder

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #3
    “Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”
    Woody Allen

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: age

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    oscar wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: wit

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Serhiy Zhadan
    “Я люблю дивитись старі фотоальбоми, з фотами із 40�50-х років, де ці чуваки, веселі й короткострижені, обов'язково посміхаються в камеру, у військових або петеушних формах, з простими і потрібними всім речами в руках � розвідними ключами, фугасними гранатами, чи на крайняк � макетами літаків, діти великого народу, прапороносці, бляха-муха, куди це все поділось, совок видавив із них все людське, перетворивши на напівфабрикати для дяді сема, ось що я думаю. В кожному разі я весь час помічаю, з якою ненавистю і відразою вони дивляться на власних дітей, вони на них полюють, відловлюють їх у глухих коридорах нашої безмежної країни і їбашить по нирках важким кирзовим чоботом соціальної адаптації. Ось така ось річ.”
    Serhij Zhadan, Depeche Mode

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain



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