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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more

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the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethar...more

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There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

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The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to th...more

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Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at l...more

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It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.