More quotes by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
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"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
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