Sentando-se na cama, viu que sua esposa – pessoa respeitável e que gostava muito de café[2]
“But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A morte conhece tudo a nosso respeito, e talvez por isso seja triste. Se é certo que nunca sorri, é só porque lhe faltam os lábios, e esta lição anatômica nos diz que, ao contrário do que os vivos julgam, o sorriso não é uma questão de dentes.”
― Death with Interruptions
― Death with Interruptions
“The son [...] had set himself to the serious study of the great artistocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Dorian, Dorian," she cried, "before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all true. I was Rosalind one night and Portia the other. The joy of Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine also. I believed in everything. The common people who acted with me seemed to me to be godlike. The painted scenes were my world. I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came—oh, my beautiful love!— and you freed my soul from prison. You taught me what reality really is. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say. You had brought me something higher, something of which all art is but a reflection.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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