Oscar Wilde. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (№ 862)

Soul and body, body and soul - how mysterious they were! In the shower hidden animal instincts, and the body this to feel spiritualized. The senses could Refine, and the intellect could degrade. Who can say when the silent flesh and the soul begins to speak? How shallow were the arbitrary definitions of ordinary psychologists! And yet how difficult to decide which school is closer to the truth! Whether the human soul a shadow seated in the house of sin? Or, as I thought of Giordano Bruno, the body lies in the spirit? The separation of soul and body - the same unfathomable mystery, and the Union.