The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library)

by Oscar Wilde

The ugly and the 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 without disquiet.

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

cigarette is the perfect type of the perfect pleasure.