The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passi...

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Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. 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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Il en est toujours ainsi des natures subtiles et raffinées. Il faut que leurs passions ploient ou broient, qu'elles choisissent de tuer ou de mourir. Seules ont la vie longue les peines légères et les légères amours. Les amours et les peines pro...

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own...

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Most people are boring and stupid.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write; the others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of gl...

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

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Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

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Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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