“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“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
“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
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jenny’s 2025 Year in Books
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