"The Picture of Dorian Gray" [.]

[fiefoe]

Oops, I finished the book months ago actually.

Principles:

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
• I never interfere with what charming people do.
• Of course, it is sudden-- all really delightful things are.
• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
• The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Passion:

• A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country.
• Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure.
• Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it.
• To be in love is to surpass one's self.
• They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence.

Art & genius:

• Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
• He had that dislike of being stared at, which comes on geniuses late in life and never leaves the commonplace.
• It was crude. It reminded her of a bad rehearsal. "No," she answered, wondering at the harsh simplicity of life.
• I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous." "A very charming artistic basis for ethics, Dorian!

__ bound for Margaret of Valois by Clovis Eve and powdered with the gilt daisies that Queen had selected for her device.
__ A faint blush, like the shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver,
__ The darkness lifted, and, flushed with faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into a perfect pearl.
__ Noiselessly, and with silver feet, the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.

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