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Detransition, Baby

by Torrey Peters

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The Essential Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

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Jan 08, 2021 09:41AM

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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