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Abigail
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Rather, because words are the medium through which belief systems are manufactured, nurtured, and reinforced, their fanaticism fundamentally could not exist without them.
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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