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    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Oscar Wilde
    “When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: woman-s-charm
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: basil-hallward
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: oscar-wilde, the-picture-of-doran-gray
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    Osamu Dazai
    “My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Osamu Dazai
    “I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
    tags: apathy, despair, melancholia, mourning, suffering
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    Oscar Wilde
    “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Virginia Woolf
    “And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: poem
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    Osamu Dazai
    “As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: love
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    Sylvia Plath
    “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
    "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
    "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Thomas Mann
    “I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
    ― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
    tags: communication
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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
    tags: sin
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    Osamu Dazai
    “From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

    'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
    tags: carol, forbidden-love, impossible-love, in-love, lesbian, love, patricia-highsmith, starcrossed-lovers, the-price-of-salt, unrequited-love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: love, secrets
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    Hermann Hesse
    “The opposite of every truth is just as true.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: death, violets
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Reason is the slave of passion.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Lev Shestov
    “If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”
    ― Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
    tags: darwin, destruction, dostoevsky
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
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    Albert Camus
    “The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: dostoevsky
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