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“Because a living person has their own reality, he says. The person who's gone has no reality anymore, except in thoughts.
And once they're gone from thoughts, they actually are completely gone. If I don't think about him, literally, I'm ending his existence.”

“het is het niet weten
dat is wat mensen eng vinden
veel enger dan de waarheid
ze tasten in het duister
alsof iemand het licht heeft uitgedaan en je niet meer
weet waar je bent”

“om te beginnen wat langer dan de wettelijke twee
dagen verlof die je krijgt als je partner sterft
twee keer 24 uur
waarschijnlijk net genoeg om te bepalen wat er op die
rouwkaart moet komen te staan
maar waarvan de envelop
de foto
de dikte van het papier
nog gekozen moeten worden.”

en toen was het moment voorbij
en ken je dat?
dat je dan erna
…
je de hele tijd
in je hoofd
dat gesprek aan het herhalen bent

tot je opeens
midden in de nacht recht schiet
en denkt
godverdomme
dat is het
dat had ik moeten zeggen
en je dan een vuur voelt opkomen
en woorden
en vuur
en woorden
en je dan
snachts
in je slaapkamer
als iedereen eindelijk slaapt
aan een pleidooi begint dat voor de hele wereld is
bedoeld

“wist je dat ze [babies] blijkbaar pas na 6 weken diepte zien?
en daarvoor dus enkel in 2d?
waardoor alles volgens mij voelt als een slechte trip op
lsd”

“het was zo een eenrichtingsverkeerknuffel
ik bedoel ik moest er niets voor doen
ik kreeg hem gewoon
alsof iemand je iets in de handen duwt
het was logischer geweest als ik haar teruggeknuffeld had
maar dat lukte niet
deels omdat ze me echt stevig vast had en mijn armen
dus klem zaten
maar waarschijnlijk ook omdat ik uit twee delen besta”

“je moet het echt loslaten hoor
het een plek geven
je wat minder zorgen maken
met andere woorden zeg je dat je niet moet voelen wat
je voelt
wat even absurd is als zeggen tegen de regen dat hij
niet mag regenen
of tegen een plafond dat het niet wit mag zijn
snap je wat ik bedoel?
geloof me
ik zou echt graag niet voelen wat ik voel
alleen voel ik het nu eenmaal”

‘The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.’

'If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.’

"I am on the side of the Trojans. They fought for a woman.”
"They were defeated.”
"There are worse things than capture”, she answered.

‘Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words.
That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.'

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'Of course it is true, Lord Henry. If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married.’

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“Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.”

‘There is something to me quite beautiful about her death (*suicide). I am glad I am living in a century when such wonders happen. They make one believe in the reality of the things we all play with, such as romance, passion, and love.'
What do you mean Henry? Dorian fell in love with an imitation of reality which is ultimately unrealistic, mistaking the performance of love for love itself.

-‘There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.’

‘As one watched life in its crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain, and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams. There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them.’

‘Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one'self over poetry is an honour.’

‘When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.’

‘But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.’

‘"My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”’

pardon uhm zwijg maar Henry
hadk nie verwacht van onze gay icon Oscar

‘“I never talk during music, at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.”'

‘All I want now is to look at life. You may come and
look at it with me, if you care to.'

‘The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.'

‘They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us.’

‘All infuence is immoral from the scientific point of view because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins […] are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development.’

'Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.'

“A mammals heart beats around 2 billion times. The life expectancy of, for example, an elephant is 50 years, for horses it’s 20 years and cats 10 years, while a mouse will last only for about 2 years. But whatever the average lifespan, all of their hearts beat around 2 billion times. The average lifespan expectancy of a human being is 70 years. I wondered if my heart has beaten 2 billion times.”

“Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end.”

“In order to gain something you have to lose something. If you have gained something it means that someone somewhere has lost something. Even happiness is build on someones misfortune.”