Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
Oscar WildeTo regret oneโs own experiences is to arrest oneโs own development. To deny oneโs own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of oneโs own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar WildeOrdinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
Oscar Wilde