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Dannii Elle
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“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look... He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
— Mar 01, 2020 03:59AM
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Dannii Elle
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“to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul."
— Mar 01, 2020 09:18AM
Dannii Elle
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"Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."
— Mar 01, 2020 08:24AM
Dannii Elle
is on page 141 of 242
“it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.”
— Mar 01, 2020 06:20AM
Dannii Elle
is on page 105 of 242
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
— Mar 01, 2020 05:08AM
Dannii Elle
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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...”
— Mar 01, 2020 03:41AM
Dannii Elle
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"I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. I grew afraid and turned to quit the room. It was not conscience that made me do so: it was a sort of cowardice. I take no credit to myself for trying to escape."
— Mar 01, 2020 03:09AM
