“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 things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
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“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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