The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… ...

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Genie währt länger als Schönheit.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything....

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be ...

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And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

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As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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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 ...

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

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From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as somethin...

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

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Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before which Dorian? The one who is pouring out tea for us, or the one in the picture?' 'Before either.' 'I should like to com...

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Nada mudou. Afastada das sombras irreais da noite, ressurge a vida, na sua realidade já conhecida. Devemos retomá-la onde a deixamos e apodera-se de nós o terrível sentimento de continuidade necessária da energia no mesmo círculo monótono de h...

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Contudo, o mais corajoso dentre nós tem medo de si mesmo. A mutilação do selvagem tem a sua trágica sobrevivência na própria renúncia que corrompe as nossas vidas. Somos todos castigados por nossas renúncias. Cada impulso que tentamos aniquil...

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