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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
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“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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