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“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The aim of all art is simply to make life more joyous.”
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“And self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. They always go to the bad.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.” “I do not understand”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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