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“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”
― 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
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”
― The Given Day
― The Given Day
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend. ”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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