Miran

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“A thick layer of cloud hung above the Sumida River. From the window of the little steamer, he watched the Mukōjima bank drawing closer. To his eyes, the blossoming cherry trees looked as dreary as rags in a row. But almost before he knew it, in those trees - those cherry trees that had lined the bank of Mukōjima since the Edo Period - he was beginning to discover himself.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man