Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty.

“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 virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

influence changes everything, borrowed thoughts they become

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

accountability doesn’t come with change, it’s simply the first step