to the full, it faded away and I became again my usual insouciant self. "Only the shallow know themselves," Oscar Wilde said. As with many of Wilde's quips, this is not as clear-cut as it may at first seem. On the one hand, the shallow may know themselves simply because there is so little for them to know. On the other, it is surely better to know oneself to be shallow than to mistake oneself for deep.
from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Bright surfaces are richer in detail than shadowy deeps
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