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Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

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But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

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Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. Yo...more

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never pu...more

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

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The ugly and 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 l...more

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more