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“Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don’t waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Now that years have passed, when I remember it, I am surprised that it could have grieved me so much. So it will be with this grief. Time will pass, and I shall become indifferent.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“That life was painful before, lately it has been dreadful. What will it be now? And he knows it all; knows that I cannot repent of breathing, of loving, knows that nothing but lies and deception can come of this arrangement, but he wants to continue to torture me.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“What’s law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law–our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don’t look too closely at the law. Do, and you’ll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You’ll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
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