Character: Dorian Gray. Page 4

- I believe in the greatness of the nation.
- It is only a relic of the entrepreneurial drive and aggressiveness.
- It is a guarantee of development.
- The decline dearer to me.
- What about art?
It is a disease.
- But love?
- An illusion.
- A religion?
- Fashionable substitute for belief.
- You are a skeptic.
- Not at all! After all, skepticism is the beginning of faith.
- Who are you?
- To define is to limit.
- Oh give me a thread!..
- Threads are cut off. And you risk getting lost in the maze.

I asked her if she's not balsamroot the hearts of their husbands and not wearing them on belt, like Marguerite de Navarre. She replied that it was impossible, because none of them had had any hearts.

- I hate death!
Why?
- But because in our time people can survive, except her.

Oh, is there in the world something impossible?

In our age, nothing serious happens. In any case, should not happen.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of any feelings or impressions. A man who take control of myself, able to end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be a slave to my emotions. I want to enjoy them, to learn from them. Want to rule over your feelings.

...just the word gives reality to things.

You once said that good decisions over the fatality they are always made too late. It happened to me.

How extraordinarily dramatic life is!

... when a man loses his beauty, he loses everything.