Epigram Quotes
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“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathersâ€� chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days â€� or hours.”
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“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”
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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
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