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    Jack London
    “But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Jack London
    “Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
    tags: appearance, image, love, superficiality
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    Simone Weil
    “If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
    ― Simone Weil
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    Jack London
    “He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
    tags: alienation, disappointment, life
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    Jack London
    “Beauty is the only master to serve.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
    tags: beauty
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    Jack London
    “But I am I, and I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind. If I don't like a thing, I don't like it, that's all; and there is no reason under the sun why I should ape a liking for it just because the majority of my fellow-creatures like it, or make believe they like it. I can't follow the fashions in the things I like or dislike.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Jack London
    “What did you have in you? - some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Jack London
    “It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. ”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Jack London
    “He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no less than that of life - nay, more that the fibres of beauty and life were intertwisted, and that he himself was but a bit of the same nonunderstandable fabric, twisted of sunshine and star-dust and wonder.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Jack London
    “He couldn’t fake being their kind. The masquerade would fail, and besides, masquerade was foreign to his nature. There was no room in him for sham or artifice. Whatever happened, he must be real. He”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Jack London
    “directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas—herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another’s opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved. ”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays 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.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, painting
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: secrecy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dark, disillusionment
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am happy in my prison of passion”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”
    ― oscar wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: beauty
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are boring and stupid.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: boring, people, stupid
    143 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dorian-gray, oscar-wilde, the-picture-of-dorian-gray
    83 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: bond, brain, connection, kindred-spirits, personality, power, soul
    72 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. ”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  • #54
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69679 likes



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