Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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Anyone can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy—they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.

—James D. Watson

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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

—Henrik Ibsen

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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

—Rebecca West

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