Only the shallow know themselves.

"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. You laugh, but I tell you she has genius. I love her, and I must make her love me….I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, how I worship her!"

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Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray (via whiplash-girlchild)

"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

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Oscar Wilde, ”The Picture of Dorian Gray” [1891]

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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

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Oscar Wilde (via forgive-the-dreamer)

"He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield."

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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via that-familiar-conviction)

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

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Oscar Wilde (via letterstoinspire)

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

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Oscar Wilde  (via bitches0nbroomsticks)

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

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Lord Henry,  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via karolena)

"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true."

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Oscar Wilde (via nitlon)

"Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away."

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (via aimori)

"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."

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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via brightbluedoor)

"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

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Oscar Wilde (via grreen-tea)

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

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Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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"Oh, I can’t explain. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life. I suppose you think me awfully foolish about it?"

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Dorian Gray from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via d0lphinanus)

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