The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. 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."

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.