Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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