Oscar Wilde Quote

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

The Writings of Oscar Wilde: His life, with a critical estimate of his writings (ed. 1907)

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit...

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit...

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit...

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit...