“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. 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.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Howl’s Moving Castle
― Howl’s Moving Castle
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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