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“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.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

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“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

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“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. 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.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“God has to be a sadist to give people life.”
― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings

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A Reading Club for Vietnamese — 1934 members — last activity Jun 26, 2026 10:49AM
This is a public reading club intended for Vietnamese readers. Vietnamese is the primary language used for discussion or book recommendation, but En ...more