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«The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.»
(Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891)


I admit to indulging myself with fine food and even finer company on occasion (e.g. Medienball 2009).
 

Some more Wilde quotes – I just love this kind of humour:

«I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.»

«I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.»

«Only the shallow know themselves.»

«I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.»

«America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.»

«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»


Oops, that was one too many …   (-;