“It was a novel without a plot and with only one character, being indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian who spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all the passions and modes of thought that belonged to every century except his own, and to sum up, as ti were, in himself the various moods through which the world-spirit had ever passed, loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“his power stretched through a narrow space, but he felt its effect the more intensely. He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“That’s right,” Kafuku said. “Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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