The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what c...

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degra...

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and...

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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

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L'inferno e il paradiso sono tutti e due dentro di noi.

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