Book: The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Page 19
In public life he was a loyal supporter of his leader, and in private - a supporter of good food that is well-known followed the wise rule: "to Act with the liberals and eat with the conservatives."
...how is it exciting to test the strength of their influence on the other person! Nothing can compare to it. To pour his soul into another, let her stay in it; to hear the echoes of his own thoughts, reinforced by the music of his youth and passion; to convey to another your temperament, as a subtle fluid or a peculiar flavor, is a real delight, the greatest joy, perhaps, what is given to man by our limited and vulgar age his glubokovodnye pleasures and probabilitie aspirations.
For the beautiful is always hidden some kind of tragedy. To bloom the most modest flower, worlds must endure the labor pains.
The philanthropic charity lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at their past.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If you're a gentleman so you have nothing to teach you enough that you know. But if you're not a gentleman, the knowledge you only harm.
In our life not have anything colorful, except for the Vice.
I wonder who invented that man is a rational animal. What a hasty judgment! The man has anything but the mind. And, in fact, it's very good!..
... when a man loses his beauty, he loses everything.
"Always"!.. What a horrible word! I shudder when I hear it. Especially like women. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. While "always" is an empty word. Between a Caprice and "eternal love" the only difference is that the Caprice lasts a little longer.
... Beauty is a form of Genius, -- is higher Genius, for it does not require understanding. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. The beauty is undeniable. She has Supreme right to rule and makes kings of those who have it.
... need to know this great secret of life -- to cure the soul by the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.
...the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. By the end of this tragic relic of those savage times when people hurt yourself, Mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. And having sinned, man is freed from the desire to sin, because the implementation is the path to purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. And if you dare to fight with him, the soul will torment the attraction to the forbidden, and you exhaust the desires that monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. Someone said that the greatest event in the world - those that occur in the brain. And I say, that the great sins of the world are born in the brain and in your brain.
Good effects does not exist, Mr. gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.
The light is great, it has a lot of interesting people.
