Dorian Grey Quotes
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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
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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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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
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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.
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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
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