Book: The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Page 1

Behind the beautiful there is always some kind of tragedy. And for a modest flower to bloom, the flour of the world must be bitter...

Here you are absolutely right. Except feelings, nothing can heal the soul, just as nothing but the soul can heal feelings.

I know that being natural is a posture, and the most hateful posture for people! exclaimed Lord Henry with a laugh.

The truth of life is revealed to us in the form of paradoxes. To comprehend Reality, one must see how it balances on a tightrope. And only after looking at all those acrobatic things that Truth does, we can correctly judge it.

Americans are a very interesting people and have a lot of common sense.

- Good intentions are futile attempts to go against the laws of nature. They are based on vanity. The result is a complete zero. From time to time, they give us the luxury of sterile feelings that comfort the weak. That's all there is to say about them. They are only checks that people submit to a bank where they do not have an account.

We poor artists should appear in society from time to time, if only to show people that we are not savages.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

My God, my God! Harry, what do I do? You don't know what I risk! And now there's no one to keep me from falling. It is able to do it. She had no right to kill himself. It's selfish?

- You told me you had destroyed it!
That is not true. It has destroyed me.

I don't talk politics. In the house of Commons, scarcely one man that the artist would be worth to expend your paint. However, many of them are in need of whitewashing.

People can not take on the mission of retribution.

Well, if he does not apologize, then at least he could resort to oblivion.

- Not talking about the past, Dorian. It died.
Sometimes what we think is dead, long is still alive.