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a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces that, once seen, are never remembered;
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Stultorum plena sunt omnia,
Roberto Bolaño • The Savage Detectives: A Novel
"Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
satyr."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
He was a nightmare of unmeaning idiocy.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
My will was strong, but my limbs refused their office.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
‘The first death under the new emperor,’ he starts, implying that there were many more to follow, was that of Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, the governor of Asia. He was a man of no ambition whatsoever, so shamelessly apathetic, Tacitus explains, that Gaius had aptly nicknamed him the Golden Sheep. But his death was inevitable, and the reason obv
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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
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