Originally posted by Ponderable Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
This is probably where "Harry and Sally" got its starting paradigm from...
Such a charming film - "When Harry Met Sally" - and that is precisely what the film is all about - when he meets her, she is few steps ahead of him... 🙂
At least that's what I think.
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." /Oscar Wilde
Originally posted by hakima (OP)
On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde, I found it fitting to resurrect an old thread even if I had to re-create it...
What a pity that the first was permitted to be buried far too long...
"Get up! Wake up! Seek the guidance of an
Illumined teacher and realize the Self.
Sharp like a razor's edge is the path,
The sages say, difficult to traverse.
“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”
"“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."
“I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, Iokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench my passion. I was a princess, and thou didst scorn me. I was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity from me. I was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire . . .”
“Gördüğümüz her şeyde simgeler bulmak akıllıca değil. Hayatı imkânsız kılar bu.”
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance."
- Mrs. Allonby to Lady Stutfield from "A Woman of No Importance"