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Posts tagged Oscar Wilde

Hell is Other People

So I do my homework.  I bought the journal and I write in it every day, one page daily.  It has been seven days now.  Has my physical and mental health improved?  Maybe, it’s hard to say.  I have another “diary,” the idea is to write three pages every day at the beginning of the [...]

Magic Has Power

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. BERTRAND RUSSELL
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. CARL SAGAN
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. JULES DE GAULTIER
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange [...]

Quote of the Day. November 30, 2009.

 
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serous danger to [...]

People are either charming or tedious.

 
Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world.  Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.  People are either charming or tedious.  I take the side of the [...]

Quote of the Day. November 25, 2009.

 
- If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
- That is a paradox, sir.  I hate paradoxes.
- So do I, father.  Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays.  It is a great bore.  It makes society so obvious.
- Do you always really understand what you say, sir?
- [...]

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