I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to us... - Oscar Wilde, 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."
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
"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."
"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"
"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."