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“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able to do." "But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, and old, and wrinkled? What then?" "Ah, then," said Lord Henry, rising to go, "then, my dear Dorian, you would have to fight for your victories. As it is, they are brought to you. No, you must keep your good looks. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. We cannot spare you." (8.19)”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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“İyi etki diye bir şey yoktur, Mr. Gray. Tüm etkiler ahlaka aykırıdır. Evet, bilim açısından da ahlaka aykırıdır. Neden mi? Çünkü etki altında kalan kişi, kendi düşüncelerini kullanmaz, kendi tutkularının peşine takılmaz olur. Yaşamın amacı benliğin geliştirilmesidir. Kişinin kendi özünü bütünüyle gerçekleştirmesidir. Bunun için buradayız. Bir insan, hayatını tam ve bütün olarak yaşamalıdır. Her duygusuna biçim vermeli, her düşüncesini ifade etmeli ve her rüyasını gerçekleştirmelidir. Bizi çeken şeylerden kurtulmanın tek bir yolu vardır ve bu da onlara teslim olmaktır. Direnirsek, ruhumuz kendine yasakladığı şeylerin özlemiyle hastalanır. Bastırdığımız her dürtü zihnimizde kuluçkaya yatar ve bizi zehirler. Ruhu yalnızca duygular iyileştirebilir, aynı duyguları da yalnızca ruhun iyileştirebileceği gibi.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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“in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.”

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Book:Shakespeare's King Henry V
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“What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.”

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