If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

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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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

—Alexandre Dumas

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I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

—Fran Lebowitz

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If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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I can't keep doing this to myself, getting my hopes up so high, only to have them come crashing down. I can't keep waiting for him to come to his senses, having my whole emotional state rest on what he decides. What if he never wakes up to how perfect we'd be together? What if I spend another year pining for him—or longer even? In a terrible flash, I see my future stretching out before me: waiting for his calls, rearranging my life around college visits, and decoding texts and instant messages like they could be something real, something true. This isn't love; this is pure torment.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

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