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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which a man can reach it. One is being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.”

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

“-I like the Duchess very much, but I don’t love her.
-And the Duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched.”

“Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.”

“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. (…) In the common world of fact the wicked we’re not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak.”

“Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.”

+ “Sometimes however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect.”

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.” +

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” - Lord Henry

Adoro o Lord Henry

Oscar Wilde disse lgbtqi+++++++