“There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one’s own novel.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. 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
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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