Composure is actually a term of Buddhism, which refers to solid faith, peaceful heart, restricted material desire, environment adaptability, intellectual enlightenment and truth interpretation.

定力本是佛家语，指理念坚固、心地清净、克制物欲、适应环境的意志和开启智慧、觉悟真理的心源。

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You should control your material desire.

你要控制自己的物欲。

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Facing with the social reality of material desire overflow, Wilde held in esteem the pure art from the Angle of emphasizing culture so as to be used as the way of denying and surpassing the reality.

面对物欲横流的社会现实，王尔德从强调文化的角度推崇纯艺术(唯美主义)，以此作为否定现实、超越现实的手段。

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