Oscar Quote #7061854
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“...Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for

    “...Genius lasts
    longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take
    such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for
    existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we
    fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of
    keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is
    the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed
    man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all
    monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper
    value.”
  

    ( Oscar
    Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray )
  

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posted February 4, 2016 at 8:59am UTC tagged with oscar, wilde, quote

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What a shame. We grew up never believing that we were beautiful, because no one ever told us that we were. We made friends who liked to complain about their stomachs, noses, and the size of their thighs. And we joined in because that's what you do, isn't it? And so, we never told ourselves, either. In 8th grade, a boy we barely knew calls us fat. We will never know if he was joking, or why. We were bullied about our long, messy hair. So we chop it all off. And we became invisible. It was years before we resurfaced, before we learned to do things just for the sake of ourselves. Someone tells us we're beautiful, and now, we don't believe them. But, we have new friends and they tell us, too. And then we hear it from a stranger. Mom apologizes for not telling us enough when we were younger. And slowly, we start to belive it. And now, we know. We know that, despite everything we'd been told, being beautiful has nothing to do with our worth. But, how unfortunate, we think, that we couldn't know we were beautiful until someone else told us that we were. We were never even told it was an option.
Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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