Perseverance

"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

Barack Obama

The Importance of Being

Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Inspired by Athalie I looked into Oscar Wilde, again, after so many years.

I admire his original wit, sharp mind and masterful play with words and the English language.

It is art.

Proofing the point, here the first lines of the first scene of the first act of The Importance of Being Ernest:

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SCENE: Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.

[LANE is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, ALGERNON enters.]

ALGERNON: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

LANE: I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

ALGERNON: I'm sorry for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Source: The Literature Page

A randow quote - Still so true:

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Links: Wikipedia