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“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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