"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion."

Wilde, Oscar on events
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."

Wilde, Oscar on ethics
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."

Baudelaire, Charles on criticism   

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think."

Durrell, Lawrence on travel
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"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen."

Disraeli, Benjamin on travel   

"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation."

La Bruyere, Jean De on hatred   

"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

Orwell, George on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."

Algren, Nelson on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."

Adler, Alfred on love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on life
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