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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Reading Progress
July 5, 2010
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Started Reading
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July 5, 2010
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September 16, 2010
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classics
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September 29, 2010
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March 29, 2012
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fantasy
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August 9, 2013
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favorites
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September 20, 2023
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horror
(Paperback Edition)
February 16, 2025
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Started Reading
February 16, 2025
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February 16, 2025
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audio-books
February 16, 2025
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classics
February 16, 2025
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fantasy
February 16, 2025
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horror
February 21, 2025
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Finished Reading