Book: The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Page 2

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us to errors, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Suffering does not cause me sympathy. Too repulsive, too horrible, too depressing.

What fun to have an impact on other people! I mean, what can match it?

And the saddest thing is for the survivor a novel, is that it becomes so unromantic.

Conscience and cowardice, in essence, one and the same.

Someone said about us that we "love ears". And you men love with your eyes... If you will ever love.

man ... when something really POPs, it enemies.

Desensitized to everything, wanting only consolations of Vice, Dorian gray, a man with a defiled imagination, and rebellious soul, hurried forward...

Too short a life to take on myself the burden of the mistakes of others.

I'd like to get you fed me a thousandth part of that compassion I have for you.

Wild flowers fade each fall, to spring, to bloom again. Broom in June of each year is as Golden as you see it in this moment. After a month a purple star blossom clematis, and every year the green night of its leaves will light up purple stars. But to us, the people, the youth will never return.

You are absolutely amazing and at the same time you utter destroyer of morality.

Strange you people, the artists! Bend over backwards to achieve fame, but as soon as it arrives, and put it in a penny.

And there were many (especially among young people) of people who saw Dorian Gray, the ideal of which they dreamed in his student years, - a combination of genuine culture scientist with charm and refined manners of a fashionable man, a citizen of the world. He seemed to be one of those who, as Dante says, "seeks to ennoble the soul by the worship of beauty."