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“Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I can sympathize with everything except suffering," said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores, the better.”
― 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
“But no one will understand Oscar Wilde who for a moment loses sight of the fact that he was a pagan born: as Gautier says, "One for whom the visible world alone exists," endowed with all the Greek sensuousness and love of plastic beauty; a pagan, like Nietzsche and Gautier, wholly out of sympathy with Christianity, one of "the Confraternity of the faithless who "cannot" believe," (His own words in "De Profundis.") to whom a sense of sin and repentance are symptoms of weakness and disease.”
― Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Vol 1
― Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Vol 1
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