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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

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“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: epistemology

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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

tags: suicide

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A Reading Club for Vietnamese — 1891 members — last activity Jul 29, 2024 08:42AM
This is a public reading club intended for Vietnamese readers. Vietnamese is the primary language used for discussion or book recommendation, but En ...more