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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: gratitude28 on November 16, 2006, 09:01:46 PM

Title: Selfishness
Post by: gratitude28 on November 16, 2006, 09:01:46 PM

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Whaddaya think??????

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: Dazed1 on November 16, 2006, 09:05:38 PM

Love it!

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: liberty on November 17, 2006, 05:19:00 AM

Excellent quote!!!!!

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: Hopalong on November 17, 2006, 11:11:36 AM

yesyesyesyesyes

Hops

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: moonlight52 on November 17, 2006, 11:25:29 AM

Wilde about Wilde


Sadly for our dear Oscar he did not heed his own good advice and after the "fall"  Melmoth receded into a life of absinthe and his shadows................




moon

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: WRITE on November 17, 2006, 02:08:29 PM

I love Wilde's writing and see nothing wrong or to judge about equal homosexual relationships; 'pederasty' I do not approve of though, nor - it is too much on the side of abusive and unbalanced relationships.

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: moonlight52 on November 17, 2006, 03:19:29 PM

Write ,

I also love Wilde's works and can not believe he was sent to prison and the letter he wrote Boise Douglas as to be beyond any prose I have read.

His sexual preferences make no difference to me and the fact he loved his wife Constance so well and loved his children so much shows his heart was good .

Never was a man so gifted and rose to the height of fame "the light side of the garden " only to fall by circumstance or by the secret wish to experience the dark side.

I do not know if even Oscar knew.This man along with Tennessee Williams I love so dearly ....also their works.

Love to you,

moonlight

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: gratitude28 on November 17, 2006, 05:58:34 PM

moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also adore Tennesee Williams! Gosh, we need to spend an afternoon over coffee and talk Literature... Gosh, was Tennesee the saddest , yet deepest, man around? He was relentlessly pursued by his personal demons and never was able to escape them for long...

I need to read a biography of Wilde... I have read short histories of him, but would like to know the entire detail. It just amazes me that even a  few of his words can be so profound.

Funny, this post turned out way differently than I had thought... I thought it would prompt a discussion on the topic... but, honestly, the words are so deep, and maybe so clear, that there's nothing left to say.

Love, Beth

Title: Re: Selfishness
Post by: moonlight52 on November 17, 2006, 08:56:39 PM

Hey Beth ,


The universal truths that are revealed though his pain and also  humor are unique Tom Williams .

No one like him.

M