"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."

Seymore, Cray on memory
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"Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."

Epictetus on death
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"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on destiny
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"The difficulty in life is the choice."

Moore, George on choice
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"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny."

Hobbes, John Oliver on destiny
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do."

Moore, George on contradiction   

"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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