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I've been reading an excerpt from "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism" by Oscar Wilde for my Victorian Lit. class and found nice some nice lines:
"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..."
-A play on the idea of "original sin" that I find much more appealing. Sort of reminds me of that one particular Thomas Jefferson quote (which of course eludes me right now).
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-This seems to apply to most of the people I know, actually (myself included).
Sometimes I feel stupidly shallow because I appreciate Wilde's witticisms so much, yet spend so little time reading and analyzing/appreciating his essays, prose, poetry, etc., but at I should try to remember that although I prefer the easy amusement of the witticisms, I can enjoy his more dense work just as much.
Oscar = <3
"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..."
-A play on the idea of "original sin" that I find much more appealing. Sort of reminds me of that one particular Thomas Jefferson quote (which of course eludes me right now).
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-This seems to apply to most of the people I know, actually (myself included).
Sometimes I feel stupidly shallow because I appreciate Wilde's witticisms so much, yet spend so little time reading and analyzing/appreciating his essays, prose, poetry, etc., but at I should try to remember that although I prefer the easy amusement of the witticisms, I can enjoy his more dense work just as much.
Oscar = <3
