Oscar says.....
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
"Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible." -The Picture of Dorian Gray
When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Argument's are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Byron says.....
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb,
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
That low vice, curiosity!
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
and then Skarlett says....
"I truly believe that at this juxtapositions of enlightenment I have found not only a voice but a means-everything in life is meant to be learn-ed and taught. I had spent so much time concerned with teaching, that I had ceased to learn. It is the smile of a scholar to realize your world has opened a new chapter. I am enthralled and embraced- It is a new day."-on Oscar Wilde
"I think insomnia is the inspiration for the distraught and anxious."
"Dining on the warm and fuzzies of life is fine-as long as one takes care to avoid choking on the hairballs of reality."
"To kiss or not to kiss? What sort of nonsense is that? Kisses that require consideration are not the kisses for me."
7-7-99
I'm trying to do what's best for you
Too often I make your choices without asking you the truth
You're trapped
living in the past of your heart
I'm drowning
Hoping you'll see and hear me
Desperate for you to be happy-
desperatly wishing your happiness was me
I could draw you a map
showing all the exits from you
but I can't show you where those roads end
because I never flow from that ocean
Sometimes it's best to hide-hoping there will be seek
Day to day my ambitions change
My constant is your smile
At any cost protect and treasure
Accept any hurt, to hurt near you
It's time to navigate through this tempest
To bleed until it stops
Wake from my hopes
and put my dreams to bed
3-18-00
I find myself searching
I think am am questing confirmation
My constant doubt of self makes me seek proof of my desireability
I so want to be loved
To breathe without doubt
Why do I do this?
What am I expecting?
Hope and fear are parrell for me
6-13-00
Walking onward,
seeking repose,
I fall from confusion into bliss
Stumbling atop learned lessons and yet still miles below the vertex of contented life
Selected blindness finds a strange enveloping calm
Inhale and smell the perfume of Nietzsche
Choosing acceptance and making your life less than ordinary
Striving for something more and making your life your own