Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I ever did a crime I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable.
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As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose!...Hedonism... was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is but itself a moment.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginnig for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
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Life Life Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit . . .
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