June 2012
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them! And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
—The picture of dorian gray- Oscar Wilde (via torinothebear)
“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.”
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Lord Henry
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
(via aculleninaway)
“My worst character flaw that I’m conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It’s paralyzing and boring for people around me.”
—David Foster Wallace (via xlifeisnotadressrehearsalx)
“Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?”
—The picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde