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The Young King and Other Stories

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Der Verfall der Lüge / Cyril
Original engl.: "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all."
Der Verfall der Lüge - The Decay Of Lying

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 5
Original engl.: "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variante: Anfangs lieben Kinder ihre Eltern; wenn sie älter werden, halten sie Gericht über sie; selten, wenn überhaupt, verzeihen sie ihnen.

Die Ballade vom Reading Gefängnis, I, 7. Strophe
Original engl.: "Each man kills the thing he loves // […] The coward does it with a kiss, // The brave man with a sword!"
Die Ballade vom Reading Gefängnis - Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Ernst muß man sein, 2. Akt / Gwendolen
Original engl.: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung, 1. Akt / Lord Illingworth, Mrs. Allonby
Original engl.: "The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung - A Woman of No Importance

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 2 / Lord Henry
Original engl.: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten, Maxime 12
Original engl.: "Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten - A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated

Sätze und Lehren zum Gebrauch für die Jugend
Original engl.: "The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."
Sätze und Lehren zum Gebrauch für die Jugend - Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Cecil Graham
Original engl.: "My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "Life is never fair […]. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband