Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes individual identity and self-acceptance over societal norms and judgments.
Oscar Wilde's quote suggests that true fashion and personal values stem from within, rather than conforming to societal standards or the opinions of others. He argues that what is considered unfashionable or vulgar is merely a reflection of external judgments, and that the only genuine society is the one we create for ourselves through self-love and acceptance. This self-romance is a crucial foundation for a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a discussion about personal style at a fashion event.
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
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
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