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“He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.”

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

This comprehensive volume presents the two early versions of Oscar Wilde's renowned novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', offering readers a detailed look into the evolution of the classic story and its characters. more

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, born on October 16, 1854, in Ireland, and died on November 30, 1900, was a renowned Irish writer, playwright, and poet. His works are known for their wit, satire, and unique style, with notable works including 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. more

“We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.”

Want Feels Has Beens Book Light Life Is Given Darkness Possibility Finished Unfair Illumination Darkness To Light New Possibilities

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.”

Want Love Walks Skins Toasts Savoring Water For Elephants

Book:The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

Courage Ignorance Suicide Individuality Envy Imitation Suicidal

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”

Doe Reality Found Views Fit Patterns Point Of View Make Sense Nonsense

Author:Gary Zukav

“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!”

World Ends Use Moving Forever Travel Shining Breathe Dull Fades Pauses Margins Rust Gleam Arches Ulysses

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.”

Real Eye Fingers

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”

Humans Science Values Scientist Shame Ruins Appeals Ashamed Imaginative

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.”

Dark Emotion Personality Red Vulnerable Lanterns

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.”

Ifs World Humans Spirit This World Mud Fear Of Death

Book:The last temptation of Christ

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.”