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“Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What are you?" "To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The moon knows," is what he says, breath colored in liquor and a smile.
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"The moon knows that we're in love."
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"I'm filling the sky with my love for you," […] "So whenever you look up, it echoes back."
"No matter where I am?" […]
"No matter where you are," Louis affirms. "There's only one sky."
"We all share the same sky," […] "But I should Always like to hear you say it," […] "Not an echo. I want you beside me under every sky. Always.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars