Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Interpretation
Life is a journey that begins with foundational relationships and ends with profound conclusions.
Oscar Wilde's quote reflects the narrative of human existence, illustrating that life commences with the simplest yet most profound connections between individuals (the man and the woman in the garden) and culminates in the ultimate revelations about existence and humanity. This suggests that the essence of life is deeply rooted in relationships and the pursuit of knowledge, leading to greater understanding as one progresses through life.
In practice
In a speech about life's journey at a graduation ceremony.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
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