They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention tha…

Oscar Wilde
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ✨ 1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2007). Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, p.103, Wordsworth Editions
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2013). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works), p.1709, e-artnow
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). Poems, p.105, Simon and Schuster
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passion … ▶

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