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“What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.”
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MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.”
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“We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...”
― Crimini e misfatti
― Crimini e misfatti
“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that.”
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“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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