The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we... - 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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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
"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."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."