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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
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