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I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I sup...more

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every ...more

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Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.