Three things
1. Not to be vulgar or anything (and its nothing new) but there is a lot of shit in this world.
2. Also, there is a lot of bad chocolate in this world. I read somewhere on the Internet today that 'life is too short to eat bad chocolate'. Sweet.
3. I finished reading De Profundis a few days ago and Oscar Wilde is a genius. I really would recommend it to anyone. In fact, half of it is online here via Project Gutenberg.
Some of my favorite quotes:
“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole: by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived, can feed love. But anything will feed hate.”
“You knew what my art was to me, the great primal note by which I had revealed, first myself to myself, and then myself to the world; the great passion of my life; the love to which all other loves were as marsh water to red wine; or the glowworm of the marsh to the magic mirror of the moon.”
"Remember that the sentimentalist is always a cynic at heart. Indeed sentimentality is merely the bankholiday of cynicism. And delightful as cynicism is from its intellectual side, now that it has left the tub for the club, it never can be more than the perfect philosophy for a man who has no soul. It has social value; and to an artist all modes of expression are interesting, but in itself it is a poor affair, for to the true cynic nothing is ever revealed.”
2. Also, there is a lot of bad chocolate in this world. I read somewhere on the Internet today that 'life is too short to eat bad chocolate'. Sweet.
3. I finished reading De Profundis a few days ago and Oscar Wilde is a genius. I really would recommend it to anyone. In fact, half of it is online here via Project Gutenberg.
Some of my favorite quotes:
“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole: by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived, can feed love. But anything will feed hate.”
“You knew what my art was to me, the great primal note by which I had revealed, first myself to myself, and then myself to the world; the great passion of my life; the love to which all other loves were as marsh water to red wine; or the glowworm of the marsh to the magic mirror of the moon.”
"Remember that the sentimentalist is always a cynic at heart. Indeed sentimentality is merely the bankholiday of cynicism. And delightful as cynicism is from its intellectual side, now that it has left the tub for the club, it never can be more than the perfect philosophy for a man who has no soul. It has social value; and to an artist all modes of expression are interesting, but in itself it is a poor affair, for to the true cynic nothing is ever revealed.”
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4 Comments:
oh i absolutely love the second quote. i'm going to make sure i pick up that book next time to go to the used book store downtown.
The quote on cynicism ring too close to home.
rebecca:i hope you'll like it. whenever he talks about his art, its really wonderful. very inspiring.
stackingchairs: seriously.. thats a though one. i think i love it cause its written in an almost caustic tone. "now that it has left the tub for the club.." -- seriously oscar wilde. your'e writing this from prison!
I love the last quote. It's very satisfying to know there are so many people who think just as I do (being part of a system I'm not even aware of), even if there are few who can articlate it. Sublime
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