“Next moment, hardly knowing how it came about, he found had hold of the handle and was turning it. As the familiar sound broke forth, the old passion seized on Toad and completely mastered him, body and soul. AS if in a dream he found himself, somehow, seated in the driver’s seat; as if in… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about . . . But I am afraid I cannot claim my theory as my own. It belongs to Nature, not to me. Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fiber of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” Comment of Lord Henry Wotton; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 219.
September 23, 2010
“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.” Comment of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 29.
September 23, 2010
“How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June . . . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was… [Read more…]
November 16, 2010
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