Those who find

[marycatelli]

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Oscar Wilde

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[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

I remember this line, although not precisely where I read it. Dorian Gray, maybe? except that doesn't feel right.

anyways, there was quite a lot more to it than just this one line and oddly it's been on my mind lately. This, as well as an essay I have somewhere written by Carver. Wilde was a perceptive man. well worth re-reading his words.

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

hnh, that's a bit of a from-mind-to-fingers ramble. nevermind me. I just really like the quote and thought it amusingly coincidental that I'd come across it while pondering it.

synchronicity

[marycatelli]

Amazing stuff, coincidence.

Helps that we remember two things together better than one thing by itself.

Yup

[marycatelli]

That's from The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Or so it has always been labeled when I run across it. I've never read that myself; I just like the quote.