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“That's the bruise in the heart the ice in the heart was meant to ice.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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