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“Religion?" "The fashionable substitute for belief.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”
― Essays in Love
― Essays in Love
“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word “postmodernist.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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