I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an ab... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."

"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."