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    Thomas Hardy
    “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    tags: happiness, life, suffering
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: romance
    3074 likes

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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
    “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
    1944 likes

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    Virgil
    “Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312
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    Virgil
    “Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
    ― Virgil
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    Virgil
    “The descent into Hell is easy”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
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    Virgil
    “Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
    Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
    ― Virgil, Eclogues
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    Virgil
    “Let me rage before I die.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
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    Virgil
    “The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.”
    ― Publius Vergilius Maro, The Aeneid
    184 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31247 likes



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