To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Citations by Oscar Wilde
We never have more illusions than when we try to act.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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The tragedies we survive come from outside, they're accidents. But to suffer for a mistake -ah!- that is by far the largest pain one may feel.
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Remember that one should be thankful that there is any fault of which one can be unjustly accused.
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If you don't talk of something, it never existed. Expression makes things real.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
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I myself am against premature experiences.
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Duty is the most arid of all human relationships.
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