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Reading Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
- It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
- The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
- In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by…
- I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
- Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
- Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends…
- A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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