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“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.”

“Then it must be an illusion. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the finality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”

“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose… his own soul.”
“Don’t, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.”

“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“‘Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.’
‘One may loose his way.’
‘All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys.’
‘What is that?’
‘Disillusion.’”

“He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.”

“Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.”

“Sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself.”
“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded.”
“The mask of youth had saved him.”

“A burnt child loves fire.” 🔥 —Oscar Wilde
This. This is the one.