“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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