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As Harry says:

Brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
its sordid sinners, and its splendid sins
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
... who were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
Religion consoles some. Its mysteries have all the charm of a flirtation,Conscience makes egotists of us all.
To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"