More quotes by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
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"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
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"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
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"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
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"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."
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