"I adore simple pleasures."-Oscar Wilde, 1876

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” 
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.


 

The Picture of Dorian Gray is my favorite book because is a novel that reflects the reality about society and how cruel they can be, by manipulating and criticizing others, but at the same time the fear of enjoying the pleasures of life.

The quote is written by an english writer called Oscar Wilde and is well said by Lord Henry, one of the main characters in the novel. " Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming" this means that in life, there are things that are presented to us, and it´s not always pleasures, it can be experiences, art, a book or a music but the important thing is who we use them and who we get inspired.

Not finding them a meaning, is like living your whole life in fear and boring because " those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the captivated" are the ones that know the real meaning of beauty, which means happiness. To be able to be this kind of people, you have to be free and enjoy the little things, even if they are bad because through the tragic comes the knowledge of all the pleasures and secrets.

There are certain types of things that we cannot talk about or do, for instance, having sex for pleasure; the society recognize this as being " immoral" but what is to act and being moral?. " There is not such thing as moral or immoral in a book. " This means that we do not have the obligation to listen to society,  we can be able to be free, and to talk, write, feel or act anything we want, because they're are not such thing as being moral or immoral, it depends on us.

I reflect myself in this quote because I tried to enjoy every aspect in life, no matter if it´s tragic or happiness, but to achieve this, I tried to don´t listen to society  because there ideas doesn't allow someone to be different. Maybe their intention it´s to help but at the end, they just demonstrate how afraid they are from life.

Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite authors because he stand up from his beliefs without caring what society thought about him. 
He was born in October 19, 1854 and died in November 30, 1900. He was well known as a extravagant man, he was arrested ones with the accusation of being homosexual.
 He was married with Constance Llyod and he had two sons: Cyril and Vyvyan.
Oscar Wilde´s work was based on novels and plays, mostly about criticizing society, that´s the reason his work will always be good, because no matter the time or years, his novels always will be present, and never forgotten.

References:

Oscar Wilde, (2005) Biography.com [ on line] Available at:

http://www.biography.com/people/oscar-wilde-9531078 [ Consulted in April 24, 2013]