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Can anyone explain this quote by Oscar Wilde: 'Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming...that is all' [duplicate]
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What does "a sort of Hercules in strength and weakness" mean?
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"Forever unfulfillable, yet him fulfilling who hears it, utterly"
Awarded Sep 15 at 2:02
What exactly drove Humbert’s preference for preteens?
Awarded Sep 13 at 23:40
Short story where aliens provide choice of escape from Earth to all species. All leave except for dogs, which remain with behind with humans
Awarded Sep 13 at 18:22
Young Adult mystery where they interview a former slave
Awarded Sep 12 at 2:04
Are Disney comics "the world's most translated"?
Awarded Sep 11 at 7:02
Standard text for "Tristan and Isolde"
Awarded Sep 10 at 23:40
What links Lily Briscoe's desire in To The Lighthouse to the desire of the old man in Slave Old Man?
Awarded Sep 8 at 20:48
NY short stories - woman wears towel for landlord, woman tricks rich man to take her to Napa, priest falls into elevator shaft while wrestling a drunk
Awarded Sep 8 at 6:22
Which book had a character read 1001 Arabian Nights for extra credit?
Awarded Sep 8 at 3:27
What is the meaning of "I was living my own metaphor"?
Awarded Sep 7 at 18:08
Which adaptation of Richard II the John of Gaunt's speech played in Tom Hiddleston's Jaguar Commercial at the beginning comes from?
Awarded Sep 7 at 13:31
Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - What is the sixth book?
Awarded Sep 7 at 12:47
What did Fitzgerald mean by "making a great mystery about pulling rusty wires"?
Awarded Sep 4 at 15:45
Meaning of "drew the lower jaw in" from "To Build A Fire"
Awarded Sep 2 at 16:42
What did Robert Frost mean in his April 7 1926 letter to B.F. Skinner?
Awarded Sep 1 at 17:52
Wife kills husband short story, NOT "Lamb to the Slaughter", where the wife giggles at the thought of killing him
Awarded Sep 1 at 1:42
John Agard's "In Times of Peace"
Awarded Aug 30 at 8:10
From which book or essay are these words by Ralph Waldo Emerson? "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year..."
Awarded Aug 30 at 7:50
What did Hemingway mean by "the setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish"?
Awarded Aug 29 at 19:57
Fairy tale about a Princess who turns into a monster at night
Awarded Aug 29 at 1:17
How do the available annotated version of Discources on Livy differ?
Awarded Aug 26 at 3:42
Sci-fi story where humans first help alien life advance and then lead factions to war against each other
Awarded Aug 25 at 13:50
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Awarded Aug 24 at 9:55
What is the subtextual meaning of the kittle vs kettle in Krazy Kat on 1918-10-03 - Friday?
Awarded Aug 20 at 21:46
Looking for the name of a book with Bruegel's Tower of Babel as the front cover
Awarded Aug 19 at 11:40
Plot differences between the 1977 version and 1997 rewrite of "Demon Seed"
Awarded Aug 19 at 0:31
Brideshead Revisited: Prince Rupert’s Horse
Awarded Aug 17 at 18:49
Meaning of "She impressed me neither favorably nor the reverse."
Awarded Aug 17 at 1:43
Who wrote/recorded this Chinese parable about a deer trained not to fear wolves?
Awarded Aug 16 at 13:31
Did Tess finally know that Alec was not a d'Urberville?
Awarded Aug 15 at 20:33
What does the ellipsis in Machado's poem 'Pegasos, lindos pegasos' mean?
Awarded Aug 14 at 21:47
Young adult 80s novel about second coming of Christ as a horny teenage boy
Awarded Aug 13 at 22:25
Greek/Roman play in which a woman encourages a pregnant slave to marry a slave owner and pass her baby off as his?
Awarded Aug 11 at 12:18
What is trauma literature?
Awarded Aug 9 at 17:51
Short animal stories book identification
Awarded Aug 9 at 11:35
Rare Facsimiles of Johnson's famous dictionary
Awarded Aug 6 at 21:25
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Awarded Aug 6 at 14:48
Hindi short story where a painter makes a painting of his dying son
Awarded Aug 4 at 15:45
Trying to find a story called "The Curse of the Phantom Rolls Royce"
Awarded Aug 3 at 13:32
"Tradition is meant to be broken" - who said it, Emerson or Thoreau?
Awarded Aug 3 at 4:56
"Anne of Avonlea": why was painting the building blue considered inappropriate?
Awarded Aug 1 at 23:49
Meaning of "You never came and you never went" in Eudora Welty's "A Visit of Charity"
Awarded Aug 1 at 15:50
Meaning behind “Where Once The Waters Of Your Face“
Awarded Jul 31 at 22:45
When is "Mr Pottermack's Oversight" set?
Awarded Jul 31 at 16:36
What was the first work of fiction about flying machines?
Awarded Jul 28 at 18:40
Shakespeare King Henry IV Part 1: What is the "money joke" in these lines?
Awarded Jul 27 at 11:00
A book from the 80s/90s with a stage magician and a couple women
Awarded Jul 26 at 18:05
What would be the diet on the Lord of the Flies's island?
Awarded Jul 24 at 5:42
Full English or French online translation of "De pugna avium"
Awarded Jul 23 at 20:47
In "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", what is the joke about "Mice"?
Awarded Jul 21 at 15:55
In Agatha Christie's "Third Girl" how exactly does this murder work?
Awarded Jul 20 at 11:48
Stone age fiction with "summers" instead of "years"
Awarded Jul 19 at 14:11
Short story about secret spy betrayed at a secret party, boss got stuck in trap while looking for files
Awarded Jul 19 at 12:56
Why did Gatsby say "This is a terrible mistake" in "The Great Gatsby"?
Awarded Jul 16 at 13:47
Looking for a phantasmagoric novel encountered many years ago
Awarded Jul 12 at 17:48
Is there any known tune for the last two verses of Rudyard Kipling's Parade Song of the Camp Animals?
Awarded Jul 8 at 14:57
Romeo and Juliet: Why is honey loathsome in its deliciousness?
Awarded Jul 8 at 0:27
What do "21B.19" and "25A.162A" mean in these references in an Oxford book list?
Awarded Jul 7 at 19:00
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