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"My childhood friend I haven't seen since I was like 9 reached out to me while I was reading this book so I'm going to take that as a sign. A sign of what? I don't know.." — Sep 19, 2025 10:13PM
"My childhood friend I haven't seen since I was like 9 reached out to me while I was reading this book so I'm going to take that as a sign. A sign of what? I don't know.." — Sep 19, 2025 10:13PM
“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”
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“Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can’t titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing.”
― The Day of the Locust
― The Day of the Locust
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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