“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 are hope.”
― Dorian Gray: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
― Dorian Gray: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
“You are a wonderful creature. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow....”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to overeducate 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.”
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
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