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Miscellaneous Sources
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a
dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be
notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who
knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can
attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be
the end of me too.
Sheridan Morley, "Oscar Wilde" (George Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1976),
p. 31.
Reply to his friend and contemporary David Hunter-Blair who asked him what his
real ambition was, in about 1878.
October 16 2007 I saw that Mick Jagger was one of the 10 wealthiest musicians .
It made me think how sometimes when we get old we try to be cute,
coquettish, attractive, or sexy …. And how this makes us look ridicules to some
eternal knowledge that even the young cringe at. We know we should have figured
it out by then, that sex, and all that attractive coquettish was not us, that
our soul is more. That the attractive behavior is all part of what is not us
and worse the concealed constituent nature of society a separate thing unknown
and to be cautioned.
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