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It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.