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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

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the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethar...more

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully...more

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There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or givin...more

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...more

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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.