Oacar Wilde: “”Corrupt Without Being Charming”

Photographers Unknown, Beguiling the Senses and Enchanting the Mind: Photo Set Three

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.… That is all.”

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Julien Gracq: “Blood Had Long Since Ceased to Beat”

Photographer Unknown, (A Simple Stretch of Macadam), Selfie

“Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field…”

Julien Gracq