Posted by: July 37
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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The best Quotes from the Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray
You can find this author also in Novels.
- Author:
- Oscar Wilde
- Publisher:
- Barbera
Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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Posted by: Sarah Tarricone
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
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Posted by: Samyy
To define is to limit.
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. The wan mirrors get back their mimic life. The flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read too often. Nothing seems to us changed. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off, and there steals over us a terrible sense of the necessity for the continuance of energy in the same wearisome round of stereotyped habits, or a wild longing, it may be, that our eyelids might open some morning upon a world that had been refashioned anew in the darkness for our pleasure, a world in which things would have fresh shapes and colours, and be changed, or have other secrets, a world in which the past would have little or no place, or survive, at any rate, in no conscious form of obligation or regret, the remembrance even of joy having its bitterness and the memories of pleasure their pain.
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Posted by: Mo
I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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Behind lives sublime, there is always something tragic. Large trials are needed because a tiny flower can flourish.
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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; [...] Such things were impossible. It seemed monstrous even to think of them.
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Posted by: Samyy
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Posted by: Deny
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
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