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Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy…


Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #art

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.


Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #insult

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.


Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #america

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.


Oscar Wilde


#living #oscar-wilde #lifestyle

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.


Mahatma Gandhi


#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.


Oscar Wilde


#honesty #oscar-wilde #words #writing #honesty

I drink to separate my body from my soul.


Oscar Wilde


#drink #oscar-wilde #soul #separation

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#comprehension #disciple #discipleship #faith #god

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.


Mark Udall


#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.


Willa Cather


#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening