“. . . if I see reason to mistrust myself for the past, Louisa, I should also mistrust myself for the present and the future . . . I am far from feeling convinced now, however differently I might have felt only this time yesterday, that I am fit for the trust you repose in… [Read more…]
November 16, 2010
“As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was compelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart. But, to see it, he must have over-leaped… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 48.
September 23, 2010
“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 123.
September 23, 2010
“There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he has lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“Then, suddenly, Time stopped for him. Yes, that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, Time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him. He stared at it. Its very horror made him stone.” Concerning Dorian Gray, upon having committed murder;… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
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