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punctuality is the thief of time.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say,
but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
there are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
the search for beauty being the real secret of life.
A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
In art, as in politics, les grandpères ont toujours tort.”
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
“To be good is to be in harmony with one’s self,”
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
He felt as if he had come to look for Miranda and had been met by Caliban.
You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity.
Art is always more abstract than we fancy.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.
One’s days were too brief to take the burden of another’s errors on one’s shoulders.
Names are everything.
“To define is to limit.”
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
