Genius and Beauty / Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want something that endures, and so we fill our minds rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man—that is the modern […]
The Selfishness of Suicide/ Ernest Hemingway
You could take the pistol out of the drawer and hold it. “Handle it freely,” was Grandfather’s expression. But you could not play with it because it was “a serious weapon” …. Then after your father had shot himself with this pistol, and you had come from school and they’d had the funeral, the […]
