Oscar wilde quotes about identity

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental.

And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human. — Oscar Wilde

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Oscar wilde children quote

— Oscar Wilde

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene.

Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings.

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