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“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
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“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“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
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