Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and wit whose works - 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' and 'De Profundis' - made him the most celebrated figure of the Aesthetic Movement. His trial and imprisonment for homosexuality transformed him from society's darling into a martyr for individual freedom.
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There was no road on earth to begin with. When many people walk the same way, a road comes into being.
-- Lu Xun
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to recall.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
-- William Shakespeare
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
-- Carl von Clausewitz