Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Quotes from the Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray
You can find this author also in Novels.
- Author:
- Oscar Wilde
- Publisher:
- Barbera
The common hillflowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty, becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to...Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.
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Posted by: Amy Pond (:
There is a kind of fate that follows our good decisions. You always decide too late.
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Posted by: Save a Quote Staff
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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What a blessing it is that there is one art left to us that is not imitative! Don't stop. I want music tonight. It seems to me that you are the young Apollo, and that I am Marsyas listening to you. I have sorrows, Dorian, of my own, that even you know nothing of. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. I am amazed sometimes at my own sincerity.
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My dear boy, you are really beginning to moralize. You will soon be going about like the converted, and the revivalist, warning people against all the sins of which you have grown tired. You are much too delightful to do that. Besides, it is no use. You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
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Posted by: Xx_aL3sS!a_xX
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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Posted by: superelenuzza5
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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Posted by: VikyPunx
The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
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Posted by: Stefania
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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Posted by: Deny
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They are but blank cheques.
Written on wednesday may 26, 2010