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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all"
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Oscar Wilde (via myblindinsanity)
Only the shallow know themselves.
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
The Oscar Wilde 30-Day Challenge
Wildean Swallow, a meme wilde about Wilde.
Posts tagged The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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"Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine"
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Oscar Wilde from The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895)
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
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Oscar Wilde (via halifornia)
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"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
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Oscar Wilde (via itoncewassaid)
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
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Oscar Wilde. (via antoniovo)
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
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Oscar Wilde (via dirtylittlefreaksz)
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untitled by savvysmilinginlove on Flickr.
*Trying to ignore that typo.*
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"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less."
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Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via speakmnemosyne)
