"It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property."
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via quotemarx)
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
By way of an Introduction What The Critics Say Ask me anything
By way of an Introduction What The Critics Say Ask me anything
June 19, 2012
May 31, 2012
"Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light."
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light."
— Oscar Wilde (via mirroir)
(Source: obviously-phallic-building, via grandejouissance)
March 7, 2012
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest
January 31, 2012
"The bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via sunrec)
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