Resenhas - Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

Renan 23/02/2022

"Seria injusto esperar que outras pessoas sejam tão notáveis quanto você mesmo"
Mais uma resenha sobre outra obra de Oscar Wilde, porém, não exatamente uma obra dele. Dessa vez, a resenha é sobre uma coletânea de frases, pensamentos e aforismos desse brilhante e perspicaz escritor!

Meus comentários são completamente dispensáveis. A genialidade de Wilde transborda a cada página, sentença e palavra. Para quem conhece, em certa medida, a obra desse escritor, essa coletânea é mais um facilitador de pesquisa de algumas passagens específicas. Para aqueles que não são tão familiarizados com a escrita dele, pode parecer um pouco estranho, desconexo e pretensioso (não que não seja de fato, contudo, quem conhece a obra, entende o contexto).

Absolutamente recomendável para aqueles que querem se deliciar com a inteligência de uma dos homens mais fascinantes da história da humanidade, de maneira organizada, curta e rápida.

tati.ANNa 01/12/2021

Trechos
Com observações extremamente pretenciosas, espirituosas e cínica, mesmo discordando da metade delas, eu adorei esse livrinho.

Os meus trechos favoritos:

"The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one?s own perfection, to make one?s every dream a reality."

"... nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible."

"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it"

"I am so clever that sometimes I don?t understand a single word of what I am saying."

"Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence."

"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching."

"I quite admit that modern novels have many good points. All I insist on is that, as a class, they are quite unreadable."

"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing"

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

"One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated."

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

"Where will it all end? Half the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me."

"A patriot put in prison for loving his country loves his country, and a poet in prison for loving boys loves boys. To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble, more noble than other forms."

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."

"Every right article of apparel belongs equally to both sexes, and there is absolutely no such thing as a definitely feminine garment."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"The most terrible thing about it [imprisonment] is not that it breaks one?s heart ? hearts are made to be broken ? but that it turns one?s heart to stone."

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?"

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational."

"It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

"What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals."