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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CRFRHgLLaSH/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"No man comes across two ideal things. Few come across one.” #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CQsX6_gjW5Q/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour—that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/COckHAbDjmK/?igshid=ppd0do2je50f

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/COatHMFjtvr/?igshid=1o44gq3x8d7ic

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdIk8mhaFy/?igshid=1chc595px5r31

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Diana: Have I ever told you I love you? David: No. Diana: I do. David: Still? Diana: Always. :These lines say it all. (Indecent Proposal, 1993) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHc3FH2Brh1/?igshid=1qfuymydd4qke

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Others find a great consolation in suddenly discovering the good qualities of their husbands. They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one’s face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. Religion consoles some. Its mysteries have all the charm of a flirtation, a woman once told me, and I can quite understand it. Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHcghUVji8-/?igshid=zfdwimdcflh6

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHaT0QFjeZq/?igshid=d138s3099632

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHZ3qt9jMbZ/?igshid=1fo5vtaxndhew

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHXWg5hDpav/?igshid=113jcatpz42so

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHSWsvljAhA/?igshid=ltylw8vsrt8r

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHRUdcPjtKR/?igshid=13nec8yg42a30

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women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQO9kdDtcJ/?igshid=ujcaurapqreh

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating— people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CHPkV13D8cF/?igshid=1n59h9vg86jxa

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. #ThePictureofDorianGrey #OscarWilde https://www.instagram.com/p/CGwtehjDvjz/?igshid=fyygwa0gwhke

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