“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? ”
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“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.”
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“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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