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Oscar Wilde on pseudonyms:
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Lydgate thought that after all his wild mistakes and absurd credulity, he had found perfect womanhood – felt as if already breathed upon by exquisite wedded affection such as would be bestowed by an accomplished creature who venerated his high musings and momentous labours and would never interfere with them; who would create order in the home and
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
He loved money, but he also loved to spend it in gratifying his peculiar tastes, and perhaps he loved it best of all as a means of making others feel his power more or less uncomfortably. If any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old Featherstone, I will not presume to deny this; but I must observe that goodness i
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
J’adore les plaisirs simples, dit lord Henry. Ce sont les derniers refuges des êtres complexes. Mais je n’aime pas les... scènes, excepté sur les planches. Quels drôles de corps vous êtes, tous deux ! Je m’étonne qu’on ait défini l’homme un animal raisonnable ; pour prématurée, cette définition l’est. L’homme est bien des choses, mais il n’est pas
... See moreOscar Wilde • Portrait de Dorian Gray, Le
To be in love is to surpass one's self.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Il s’étonnait de la psychologie superficielle qui consiste à concevoir le Moi dans l’homme comme une chose simple, permanente, digne de confiance, et d’une certaine essence. Pour lui, l’homme était un être composé de myriades de vies et de myriades de sensations, une complexe et multiforme créature qui portait en elle d’étranges héritages de doutes
... See moreOscar Wilde • Portrait de Dorian Gray, Le
his chiselled lips curled in exquisite disdain.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.
Oscar Wilde • 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."