Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
Interpretation
Seeing beauty in a flawed world requires bravery and love.
This quote by Oscar Wilde speaks to the power of courage in recognizing and embracing the imperfections of the world. It suggests that true love involves a deep understanding and acceptance of reality, including its flaws, which requires significant bravery and emotional strength.
In practice
In a speech about resilience and hope during difficult times.
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
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally.
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