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Oscar Wilde on What Suffering Teaches Us

Somehow (I’m still not quite sure how), a long-ago conversation with a friend turned to the topic of Oscar Wilde.  You know, the guy who said “I can resist anything except temptation,” and “A man’s face is his autobiography.  A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”  That Oscar Wilde. But the quote that my friend… Continue reading Oscar Wilde on What Suffering Teaches Us

Literature, Quote of the Day

Oscar Wilde on Suffering

Somehow (I’m still not quite sure how), a recent conversation with a friend turned to the topic of Oscar Wilde.  You know, the guy who said “I can resist anything except temptation,” and “A man’s face is his autobiography.  A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”  That Oscar Wilde. But the quote that my friend… Continue reading Oscar Wilde on Suffering