“Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?”
― England, England
― England, England
“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
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“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― A Few Figs from Thistles
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― A Few Figs from Thistles
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