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“What are you?” “To define is to limit.”
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
“and women rule the world. I assure you we can’t bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” “Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?” asked the Duchess, after a pause. “Especially when one has been wounded by it,” answered Lord Henry.
“Courage has passed from men to women. It is a new experience for us.”
I have no terror of Death. It is the coming of Death that terrifies me.
“I wish I could love,” cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in his voice. “But I seem to have lost the passion, and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.
One should never do any thing that one cannot talk about after dinner.
I suppose he bored you. If so, he never forgave you. It’s a habit bores have.
what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose’— how does the quotation run?—‘his own soul’?”
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Youth! There is nothing like it.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
how happy you are! What an exquisite life you have had! You have drunk deeply of everything.
I wonder what the rest of your life will be.
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play — I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
