“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
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