A small observatory beneath stars and green-gold aurora above a mountain lake.

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Lady Windemere's Fan

Oscar Wilde

LORD DARLINGTON. No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Darlington answers that everyone is stuck in the gutter, yet some people lift their eyes to the stars. The epigram divides people not by circumstance but by outlook: shared low conditions, with a few choosing to look toward something brighter.

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