“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes”
-Wilde
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes” -Wilde
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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knowledge is of what becomes, not of what is.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
La seule constante est le changement
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
This truth is known—and can only be known—when we take action into the depth and breadth of our world and brave its reaction.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
‘The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.’ – G. W. F. HEGEL