In the Words of Oscar Wilde
You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the Ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, and of one essence. To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
…you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray