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" "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.
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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
Les femmes nous aiment pour nos défauts. Si nous en avons une somme convenable, elles nous pardonnent tout, même d'être intelligents. (...)
- Naturellement, c'est la vérité. Si nous ne vous aimions pas pour vos défauts, que deviendriez-vous tous ? Pas un de vous ne se marierait. Vous ne seriez plus qu'un tas d'infortunés célibataires. Ce qui, d'ailleurs, ne vous changerait pas beaucoup. Car aujourd'hui tous les hommes mariés vivent en célibataires, et tous les célibataires en hommes mariés.