“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“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.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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