The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Those whoare faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is thefaithless who know love's tragedies."

"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. Hedoes not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his naturalpassions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there aresuchthings as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some oneelse's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's natureperfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

The terror of society,which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is thesecret of religion—these

that punctuality is the thief of time.

Women defendthemselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strangesurrenders.

The girlnever really lived, and so she has never really died.