“Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.” ― Oscar Wilde

11apr15. Belfast, Northern Ireland.

“It’s tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die. ‘Nothing is more rare in any man’, says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

11apr15. Belfast, Northern Ireland.

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life’s secret.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

11apr15. Belfast, Northern Ireland.

“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

11apr15. Belfast, Northern Ireland.