Add to it the flavour of life

Just jotting down a few quotes here. Its really quite interesting how our understanding and appreciation changes for things we read as they keep coming into new perspective. How our own life and mood affects our interpretations.
But one of the things that i really like reading is how people tend to say so much in so few words. First they lay some groundwork for it and they finish it of in brevity and style. And really there can be no style without brevity. So here goes Oscar Wilde and Kafka:

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

And the one from Kafka. The three adjectives he uses in the end reverently, reflectively and lovingly: they just knock me off :
We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me an look at me, what do you know of the grief's that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me that you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.

Then there was a discussion in Dorian Gray about the effects of age and evil on a face. How a young an innocent face decays with age and evil starts showing on it. The accumulated evil of his life. I came across a picture of someone whom I knew some time back. And the first time I saw this pic this was the thing that came to my life. How it made some sense for the first time.