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 have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
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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 put one's worship into words.
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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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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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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 least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
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Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!
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Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?
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Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.
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