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

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespea...

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the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loy...

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

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

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

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself....

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Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

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

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the pl...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray