Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less...
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less...
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less...
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less...
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The quote above by Oscar Wilde can be understood in a number of ways. The most common interpretation includes the idea that the way we live our lives is more like art than we might like to admit. We see and hear and experience things and then we create and think and talk about them in a way that makes them more like art than they really are. For example, when we choose what to wear each morning, we make choices that make us “look good” but will never look good enough.

We also pick up books with ideas that make us feel better, but will never make us feel quite good enough. We carefully plan our every move, but never quite get there. We write the great American novel, but all our characters run away from home at some point.

And we go to great lengths to avoid mistakes, but always find ourselves in one.

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