“Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had this courage to commit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.”
― 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
“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
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