“The Picture of Dorian Gray”

It's pretty amazing that  so many observations were inspired and dispensed during just one sitting.

• and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
• It is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
• How delightful other people's emotions were!-- much more delightful than their ideas.
• the luxury of a regret
• But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us.
• "Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
• Beauty is a form of genius-- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
• have to content yourself with those mean triumphs
• I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.
• To convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--

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