2.07.2013

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"You don't understand what friendship is, Harry... or what enmity is, for that matter.  You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."

" A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.  I have not one who is a fool.  They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me."

"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."
"A delightful theory!" she exclaimed.  "I must put it into practice."

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.  That is what the world calls a romance."

"There is a luxury in self-reproach.  When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.  It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

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