"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

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"With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

— Oscar Wilde  (via bromazepam)

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betterbooktitles:

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

betterbooktitles:

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Jersey Shore With British Accents

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"The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away."

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via imfantasyparade)

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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

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"When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make a modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it."

— Basil Hallward, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via birdsbirdsbirds)

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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."

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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

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NOOOO. Groupthink theory badddd.

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He flung himself on the sofa, and turned away his face. “You have killed my love,” he muttered.

Then he leaped up, and went to the door. “Yes,” he cried, “you have killed my love! You used your imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I thought I loved…

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"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hears tells them is not."

— Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)

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