One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar WildeThe body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
Oscar WildeIt is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Oscar Wilde