Most people are boring and stupid.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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