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“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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