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“Black as night, sweet as sin.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?”
― John Cheever, The Swimmer

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray