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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.”
“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.”
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.
“Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him,
Ugliness was the one reality.
In her dealings with man Destiny never closed her accounts.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him.
It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.
