Oscar Wilde about terror (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1890) - 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.
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“ 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. ”
 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). copy citation

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Oscar Wilde about terror (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1890) - 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.
Oscar Wilde about terror (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, 1890) - 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.