"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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At least three 35 year old American centrist (conservative) women have hung this quote up on their wall in blissful ignorance, calling it rn
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"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day."
-Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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