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“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
“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”
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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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