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"Picture of Dorian Gray — Excellent writing, twist and idea, but I’m not all sold on the psychology and opinions. Despite his contrarian and flippant, self-obsessed nature, Wilde does have insight, wit and heart.
I find that it’s okay that some classicists have a single work and nothing else. Wilde’s worst written sentence could be someone else’s life’s pinnacle." — Mar 01, 2026 06:58AM
"Picture of Dorian Gray — Excellent writing, twist and idea, but I’m not all sold on the psychology and opinions. Despite his contrarian and flippant, self-obsessed nature, Wilde does have insight, wit and heart.
I find that it’s okay that some classicists have a single work and nothing else. Wilde’s worst written sentence could be someone else’s life’s pinnacle." — Mar 01, 2026 06:58AM
“You must stop your fooling around with women. You’ve gone far enough. Society won’t stand for more.” What, I wondered, did he mean by “society”? The plural of human beings? Where was the substance of this thing called “society”? I had
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“Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.”
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Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.”
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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