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Ariel Avalos
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The portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all. The opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep. But here was a visible symbol of the degration of sin. Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls.
— Sep 02, 2026 07:19PM
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Ariel Avalos
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This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul. […] When the blood crept from his face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood. Not one blossom of his loveliness would ever fade. Not one pulse of his life would ever weaken. […] He would be safe. That was everything.
— Sep 02, 2026 08:10PM
Ariel Avalos
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The joy of Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine also. I believed in everything. The common people who acted with me seemed to be Godlike. The painted scenes were my world. I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came- Oh my beautiful love! and you freed my soul from prison, […] You made me understand what love really is. My love! My love! Prince Charming! Prince of my life!
— Sep 02, 2026 04:46AM
Ariel Avalos
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
— Jul 22, 2026 02:52AM
Ariel Avalos
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Harry, dont talk to me like that. As long as I live, the personality of Dorian Grey will dominate me. You can’t feel what I feel. You change too often.
Ah my dear Basil, that is exactly why I can feel it. Those who are faithful only know the trivial side of love: It is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
— Jul 13, 2026 06:36PM
Ah my dear Basil, that is exactly why I can feel it. Those who are faithful only know the trivial side of love: It is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
Ariel Avalos
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul!
— Jul 13, 2026 06:31PM
The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul!
Ariel Avalos
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it .
— Jul 13, 2026 06:23PM
Ariel Avalos
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
— Jul 13, 2026 06:23PM
Ariel Avalos
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All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Jul 13, 2026 06:21PM
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.