Excerpts of Citations
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~William Shakespeare
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
~Oscar Wilde
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
~Oscar Wilde
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
~Oscar Wilde
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
~Oscar Wilde
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
~Oscar Wilde
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
~Oscar Wilde
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
~Oscar Wilde
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
~Henry Miller
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
~Buddha