Sublime

‘Dorian Gray’.

Charles Dickens’s children said they always knew when he was writing a book because they could hear him. He created characters through their voices, and would practise their verbal tics in front of a mirror.

enigmatical,

Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Surely it’s impossible, I think, that the devils will forget to drag me down to their place with their hooks when I die.

Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Museum of Serial Killers, in Florence.

You may consider yourself to be dangerously ill; far more so than if you had a more conventional disease. Unless you meet this woman again and get to know her and masticate her and bite upon her and fully digest and eliminate her, you will be unlikely to recover. It is a rare disease you have; and fatal unless it is permitted to run its full course

“Well, the thing with vampires is you never see them hanging out together. That’s because they really don’t bond well. They don’t desire each other’s company or anyone else’s. That’s just the way of it. It’s a solo deal. Nature of the beast.”