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The Coworker
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A matter of great importance. I wonder if that was about… No. Probably not.
“How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It was the violin that decided me,” Lydia says. “It’s because of that incredibly thoughtful present that we made Francesca Violet’s godmother.” Francesca is Violet’s… what?”
― The Ex
― The Ex
“The man whose life I want must be nearly forty now. This one is little more than a boy.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition
― The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition
“The tone in which the words were said revealed a genuine bad nature.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition
― The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition
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