This volume pairs Oscar Wilde's miscellaneous aphorisms—witty reflections on love, beauty, art, and human nature—with his essay 'The Soul of Man,' a meditation on individualism and socialism. Wilde's epigrams remain sharp and thought-provoking, offering pleasure and insight for any listener.
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Opening of the book
SEBASTIAN MELMOTH
(OSCAR WILDE)
LONDON
ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS
1911
(Miscellaneous aphorisms, followed by The Soul of Man.)
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. Moren than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Women, as someone says, love with their ears, just as men love with their eyes, if they ever love at all.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Misfortunes one can endure, they come from outside, they are
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