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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slighte...more

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Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them...more

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It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

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Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.''You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.''Before which Dorian? The one...more