Grad Student, new mom, LEO, former idiot, a 31 year old narcissist in the mental health counseling field somewhere in Dallas, TX.

 

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion — these are the two things that govern us.

― Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories