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The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Part 2 of 2: Quotes To Contemplate On

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This piece is a continuation of the last, with quotes taken from The Picture of Dorian Gray; shared to ignite your contemplative natures and entice you to action — action that enables you to create beautiful works of art that are infused with your interpretation of these quotes. If you missed the first part, you can find the link below:

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

More quotes that I picked from The Picture of Dorian Gray

• “There are only two kinds of people who are fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
• “If thought could exercise its influence upon a living organism, might not thought exercise an influence upon dead and inorganic things?”
• “It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
• “He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.”
• “He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.”
• “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.”
• “To define is to limit.”
• “Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.”
• “… Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.”
• “If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
• “The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.”
• “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
• “Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”
• “Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act.”
• “His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.”

That’s it — some of the quotes that I wrote down while reading this beautiful book by Oscar Wilde. Be sure to tag me if you decide to use these quotes to make fiction, poetry, an essay or anything that tickles your fancy. I would love to read your creations.