• Dark Academia •

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disapointed

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the World's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

The advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic

I wonder who it was defined a man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying  to make it last forever.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly.... Ah! realise your youth while you have it.

Beauty is the wonder of the wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul

Words! mere words! How terrible they were! How clever, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also

Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul

Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely-curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once