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

“My dear boy, no woman is a genius; women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but say it charmingly.”

Q hiciste Dorian

"But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."

"Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the making or the marring of it than poor Harry has had. He may not have intended it, the result was the same."

WHYYYYYYYYY
NOOOOOOOOO

chapter 9 was the hardest thing i've ever had to read, we did not need that much useless information.

"Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities."

This book- is a poetic masterpiece.

I never realised this book would be so relevant, observant and funny in places.

The first 25% of this edition is the background to the book, why the different versions and the politics surrounding its publication.

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"But, as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret. There was love in every line, and in every touch there was passion. I grew afraid that the world would know of my idolatry."

"Not one blossom of his loveliness would ever fade. Not one pulse of life would ever weaken. Like the Gods of the Greeks he would be strong, and fleet, and joyous. What did it matter what happened to the coloured image on the canvas? He would be safe. That was everything."

Not a hot take, but Ch.11 just reminded me that the hedonism/ aestheticism portrayed is essentially the opposite of the middle path in Buddhism. Both ways to deal with suffering.

"I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit"

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bitch ass lord henry

omgg

this is lowkey hard to understand

“Uma forma pela qual pudesse realizar seu conceito de beleza”.

I adore the language used in this novel so far :)

rr: i forgot how unironically funny and long chapter 11 was 😭

my brain craves to read more and more of this book i'm so interested.

No recordaba tanta misoginia en este libro

PLOT TWIST?????

im not reading an almost 60 page introduction sorry

Why does no one talk abt how terribly misogynistic Lord Henry is

"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful".

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Confused w the romance aspect so far but this book is so beautifully written