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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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Oscar Wilde's Popular Quotes

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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