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Saints always have a past and sinners always have a future.
— Oscar Wilde
we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
What martyrs we are, dear Margaret!
OSCAR WILDE • Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
one! To note the curious hard logic of passion, and the emotional coloured life of the intellect—to observe where they met, and where they separated, at what point they were in unison, and at what point they were at discord—there was a delight in that! What matter what the cost was? One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wisehouse Classics - with original illustrations by Eugene Dété)
Some love might come across his life, and purify him, and shield him from those sins that seemed to be already stirring in spirit and in flesh--
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
profligacies
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
horrid people with dyed hair and painted faces."