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    Emily Henry
    “When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
    ― Emily Henry, Beach Read
    tags: love, romance
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    Coco Mellors
    “When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.”
    ― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
    tags: love-quotes
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    Coco Mellors
    “People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
    ― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
    tags: brokenness
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    Coco Mellors
    “I'm so lonely I could make a map of my loneliness....Sometimes I'm so lonely I'm not even on that map.”
    ― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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    Coco Mellors
    “Fondness was the best word she could think of to describe what they felt for each other. Fondness was warm but not tepid, the color of amber, more affectionate than friendship but less complicated than love.”
    ― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
    tags: fondness
    110 likes

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    Coco Mellors
    “Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”
    ― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
    20077 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
    10851 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
    7400 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
    5965 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
    5071 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
    3842 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13801 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
    3914 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
    3800 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor
    3741 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: romance
    3057 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “What of Art?
    -It is a malady.
    --Love?
    -An Illusion.
    --Religion?
    -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    --You are a sceptic.
    -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    --What are you?
    -To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women
    2864 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    2211 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor, seriousness
    2158 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
    2009 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, humanity, sadness
    2012 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    1895 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, painting
    1921 likes



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