“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
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“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“Love me!... Why?”
― Much Ado About Nothing
― Much Ado About Nothing
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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